WARSAW, Poland — The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical power. Of Poland’s more than 36,000 reported COVID-19 cases, about 6,500 are miners — making them nearly a fifth of all confirmed infections in ... 
Coronavirus slams Poland’s already-troubled coal industry
MINEX Forum | July 7, 2020
WARSAW, Poland — The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical power. Of Poland’s more than 36,000 reported COVID-19 cases, about 6,500 are miners — making them nearly a fifth of all confirmed infections in ... 
As Germany takes the helm of the EU, its problematic coal law risks sending out the wrong signals, writes Riccardo Nigro. The German presidency of the EU could not have started at more crucial times. While Europe gears up to recover from the corona crisis, the climate emergency has become increasingly pressing – May 2020 was ... 
Bosnia’s Banovici invites offers for 2.6 mln euro loan – report Author: RMU Banovici. Licence: All rights reserved. SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), June 17 (SeeNews) – Bosnian brown coal mining company Banovici [SAJ:RMUBR] has launched a public call for a 5 million marka ($2.9 million/2.6 million euro) loan that it will use to finance purchases of equipment, local media ... 
According to the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, Kazakhstan intends to introduce a number of projects in the coal industry. “The explored coal reserves amount to nearly 34 million tons or 4 percent of the world’s reserves. Kazakhstan is among the ten leading countries in the world in this. In 2019, a Roadmap ... 
by Eugene Gerden Russia plans to increase its domestic coal production up to 448-530 million tonnes annually until 2024 and up to 485-668 million tonnes annually until 2035, according to the recently presented draft of state strategy for Energy Development of Russia until 2035. The new strategy was designed by the Russian Ministry of Energy. ... 
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Coal-extracting companies of Kazakhstan produced 18.3mn tonnes of coal in January-February 2020, Kazinform reports. 10.4mn tonnes of coal were shipped to energy-producing companies, and industrial enterprises received 936,800 tonnes. 1.4mn tonnes were shipped for public and utility needs. 4.6mn tonnes will be exported. According to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, The ... 
Some residents in Northumberland are against plans to open a new site near Druridge Bay, which has a rich history of coal mining. Environmentalists and scientists have told Sky News that the government is failing to show leadership over the opening of new coal mines. Coal is one of the most carbon intensive fossil fuels ... 
Miners in Poland launched a blockade of a railway terminal in the country’s main coal-mining region on February 18 to protest an increase in Russian coal imports. The labor action involving several hundred miners at the Slawkow terminal in Silesia follows an increase in imports of Russian coal to Poland in recent years while stockpiles ... 
By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw February 18, 2020 Poland’s share in the EU’s just transition project – a plan to help the bloc end the use of coal as a source of energy – should be cut in half to €1bn unless Warsaw signs up to the 2050 climate neutrality goal, President of the European Council Charles ... 
By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw February 17, 2020 Mining unions at Poland’s biggest hard coal miner Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) went on a two-hour warning strike on February 17, demanding the Law and Justice (PiS) government address the sector’s mounting problems. The Polish hard coal mining sector is on the verge of a crisis, as a ... 
Kazakhstan, at least on the surface, seems to have a strong political will to attract investments in renewable energy projects as demonstrated by its official general policy. The government of Kazakhstan, for instance, made an official commitment to increase the share of renewable energy in domestic electricity generation from the current 2% in 2019 to ... 
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish state-run power producers will halt coal imports, State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin said on Tuesday, after protests by mining trade unions over foreign supplies they say are a threat to the domestic industry. Poland generates most of its electricity from coal, but domestic output has fallen because of cost-cutting and geological ...