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03 March 2023

Turów crisis deepens as Poland approves coal mining until 2044

Poland’s Ministry for Climate and Environment has approved a 21-year licence extension for the country’s Turów coal mine, burdening the Bogatynia region with an industry without a future.

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06 February 2023

A year after a worthless deal, PGE delivers nothing for Turów locals

Despite the Polish and Czech governments shaking hands in early 2022 on a 45 million euro deal to end their Turów coal mine dispute, one year later not a single piece of the water protection system in the agreement has been installed.

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07 December 2022

“Commit to higher ambition on energy,” EU ministers told by over 100 businesses and NGOs

Brussels, 7 December 2022 – More than 100 businesses and civil society organisations are urging European energy ministers to commit […]

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28 November 2022

Calling Time on Coal: Eastern Greater Poland [video]

Calling Time on Coal: Eastern Greater Poland, tells the story of how one Polish region steeped in coal has rejected the Polish government’s strategy to keep burning coal until 2049 in favour of blazing its own path beyond coal by 2030 to build a brighter future based upon clean, renewable energy.

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28 November 2022

Calling time on Coal: Eastern Greater Poland

Poland has the second largest coal industry in the EU, but while the majority of other member states will stop burning the dirtiest of all fossil fuels this decade, Poland has no such plan. That is, except for the coal region of Eastern Greater Poland, which has taken matters into its own hands and plans to be coal free by 2030.

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15 November 2022

Turkey plans to increase emissions and fail climate targets

Istanbul, 15 November 2022 – Campaigners lament Turkey’s plans to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by over 30 percent by […]

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25 October 2022

European Commission urged to uphold EU law at Poland’s Turów coal mine

BRUSSELS, 25 OCTOBER 2022 – Czech and German NGOs filed a complaint to the European Commision today, calling on it […]

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21 October 2022

Repowering or Refiring: How to avoid that our EU RePower plan locks-in coal

Europe is facing one of its greatest ever tests. The impact of the war in Ukraine on energy prices is throwing many of the most vulnerable into, and putting millions more households at risk of energy poverty.

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10 October 2022

Flawed Turów coal mine assessment gets green light

Poland’s General Director for Environmental Protection waved through an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the country’s Turów coal mine this past Friday, despite expert analysis showing the EIA severely underestimates the amount of groundwater the mine is draining.

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