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The Fridays for Future climate group on Saturday held a demonstration to criticize plans to drill for natural gas off the German island of Borkum. Leading climate activist Luisa Neubauer said the project would come at “an immense ecological and political cost, without any necessity for this gas.” According to Fridays for Future, around 2,000 people protested on the North Sea island on Saturday, although only 50 had registered to attend. Police neither confirmed nor denied the figure, with a spokesman saying that people had repeatedly joined and left the march, making it difficult to determine …

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