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 ... 
Polish Miners Block Railway Hub To Protest Import Of Russian Coal
Anastasia Bogdanova | February 19, 2020 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 ... 
THE director of Banks Mining was on the money in his piece (Echo, Feb 3) where he described the carbon hypocrisy that is rife in the UK today. It is farcical that anti-coal campaigners are actively opposing coal mining in the North-East, which has a far less carbon footprint than the alternative of hauling it ... 
Despite commitments to cut CO2 emissions and limit global warming between 1.5-2 °C under the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel emissions show little sign of abating. According to new estimates from a group of scientists in 2019, global emissions will grow 0.6 percent year-on-year and reach 36.8 billion t of CO2, or 36.8 Gt carbon. “Fossil CO2 emissions ... 
One of the greatest moral dilemmas that has been creeping into the everyday activities of specialists working with coal, oil and in some cases even gas (despite its being perceived a natural bridge to a low-carbon future) could be phrased in the following way: how do you stop producing fossil fuels when you still have ... 
FILE — A coal-fired power plant in Mannheim, Germany, Oct. 28, 2018. Germany announced on Jan. 16, 2020 that it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal but not for another 18 years, by 2038. (Gordon Welters/The New York Times) Germany announced it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal — but not for another ... 
Russian steel and coal producer Mechel has decided not to buy back a stake in its biggest asset, the Elga coal mine in Russia’s far east, from its creditor Gazprombank, which has held the stake since 2016, said on Tuesday. Mechel is engaged in talks with its creditors about restructuring $6-billion in loans. It sold ... 
Thailand’s imports of Russian coal almost doubled in January-November from a year earlier, even as Thailand’s overall imports fell as a result of slower economic growth. Thailand imported 946,000t of Russian coal in January-November, up from about 494,000t in the same period a year earlier, Thai customs data show. Russia became Thailand’s third-largest coal supplier ... 
Great Britain went 432 hours in May without using coal for electricity generation, a tweet by the National Grid ESO (NGESO) reports. The streak ended after 18 days and 60 hours due to plant availability and system requirements, the country’s electricity system operator said. According to NGESO, the British record for solar power use was ...