Polish climate activists are modelling themselves on those in the West. They are still less radical and their actions less spectacular, but it is only a matter of time until they begin to copy the antics of Paris or London one to…
Poland – As a member of the EU, Poland has committed itself to closing its last mine by 2049, the year it intends to stop allowing the use of coal for heating, while the date set for the closure of the last…
Poland – The surge in energy prices began before the war in Ukraine, and this cannot be stressed enough. A little over a year ago, in early December 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki justified the “anti-inflation shield” implemented by his government by…
Poland – Like the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989–90) and the departure of the last Russian troops (in September 1993), which ended five decades of…
When it introduced an embargo against Russian coal several months before the rest of the EU, the government of Mateusz Morawiecki promised in March that Polish black coal production would be increased this year by 1 to 1.5 million tonnes. It has…
Poland – Meeting on 16 December to discuss, among other things, soaring energy prices, the EU-27 were unable to agree on two issues that are crucial to Europe’s future: the CO2 emissions trading system (ETS) and the energy “taxonomy”, that is, the…
Poland/Czech Republic – The Czech-Polish negotiations over the Turów open-pit mine do not seem to be leading to an amicable solution as quickly as Poland would like. After announcing – somewhat hastily – on 25 May that he had reached an agreement…
Poland - ‘Poland today is not a country that can show Europe the way, it's a country that has decided to go against European interests in many areas’, French president Macron said at a press conference in Bulgaria, in August 2017. This…
Article originally published in PowerMag. Written by Darrell Proctor.
Poland - Poland’s energy minister in September said the country was ready to shift away from coal-fired power, which provides about 90% of its electricity. Krzysztof Tchorzewski, speaking at the Krynica-Zdroj Economic Forum in…