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Polish coal deal hangs on EU green light
An agreement between the Polish government and the country’s coal miners is “very unlikely” to get the green light in Brussels, says the environmental law group ClientEarth.
read more... 01/06/2021
Poland Poised to Announce Major Coal Mine Closures
Poland’s biggest coal producer, state-run PGG, is likely to announce within days deep cuts in coal output and the closure of a number mines as part of a restructuring plan that is expected to prompt protests by miners, industry sources said.
read more... 27/07/2020
Russia blocks coal supplies to Ukraine through Belarus
Ukrainian MP Mykhailo Volynets, who serves as the chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, has said that Russia has begun blocking coal exports to Ukraine via Belarus, Kosatka Media has reported.
read more... 11/10/2019
Poland could fuse two troubled coal miners
The Polish government is thinking about fusing troubled state-owned coal miners PGG and KHW and hopes to make a decision by the end of the year, as stated by Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski on Friday.
read more... 07/11/2016
Final farewell to the last British deep coal mine
UK has closed on December 18, 2015 its last deep coal mine Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, marking the end of an era of deep coal mining, industry that once employed more than 1 million miners at over 3,000 collieries.
read more... 23/12/2015