Renaturation in the Ruhr area
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With the Chancellor on the blue Emscher
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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the ceremony marking the completion of the Emscher conversion after 30 years of renaturation.
(Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA)
In Castrop-Rauxel, Olaf Scholz praises the “visionary generational project” that has turned a Ruhrpott cesspool into a clean river. He thinks the Emscher is a role model for the whole of Germany.
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Christian Wernicke, Castrop-Rauxel
The quiet revolution took place underground – for Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz it is still “a shining example for our country”: After people and industry misused it for a century and a half as an open sewer and sewer, the Emscher is becoming a clean river again. After 30 years of renaturation, Scholz honored the body of water on Thursday with a symbolic act: he planted a vine in the middle of the Ruhr area.
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