25\07\2019 Poland alert

Alert
lignite coal has been the main cornerstone of Poland’s self-sufficiency in electricity generation accounts for nearly 80% of the electricity in Poland’s supply.

Some activists from the Climate Camp environmentalist protest group protested in the lignite mine in Tomisławice in western Poland, in the spirit of the earlier ones in Germany.

President Andrzej Duda had said “We have 200 years’ worth of coal,” during last year’s world climate talks in Katowice.

Anita Sowińska later said “Extractable reserves of coal are declining in Poland, and it’s high time we looked at important issues, like climate, from a perspective longer than the next parliamentary term.”.

Atomic power has been mooted, but is unpopular and controversial on environmental grounds. 100% renewable energy has also been considered, but it is highly controversial and carding to both many experts and science papers, next to impossible.

Source

 * 1) https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-ready-end-use-coal/