They are no longer telling themselves that. They scraped that clause a while ago.

I don’t need someone’s consent to draw lewd fanart of them.

The contract for RWE to expand the mine there goes back decades and the wind farm operator knew it would be demolished before they build it. It’s at the end of its life cycle now and had to be demolished one way or another.

German government could either breach their contract with RWE and pay them compensation or allow the destruction of a derelict wind park in exchange of RWE stopping coal extraction 8 years earlier then planned. It’s a job well done by the government.

The wind turbines are already at the end of their lifespan and they knew RWE had the license to expand the mine there when the wind turbines where build.

Of course it’s economical for RWE, they are not building a new mine. Just continuing their mining operation there for another 7 years.