{"id":18462,"date":"2023-03-02T15:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:57:30","slug":"turow-coal-mine-to-go-to-court-again-over-mining-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/tiskova-zprava\/18462\/turow-coal-mine-to-go-to-court-again-over-mining-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tur\u00f3w crisis deepens as Poland approves coal mining until 2044\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Poland\u2019s Ministry for Climate and Environment has approved a 21-year licence extension for the country’s Tur\u00f3w coal mine, burdening the Bogatynia region with an industry without a future. The licence was issued despite Tur\u00f3w having been the focus of legal proceedings in Poland and complaints to the European Commission. Tur\u00f3w supplies coal to the nearby PGE-owned Tur\u00f3w lignite power plant which emitted over 5.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2020. The Polish government wants to operate both until 2044, a move that is incompatible with Poland\u2019s climate targets.<\/p>\n\n

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Greenpeace protest in Turow mine. (c) Greenpeace – Max Zielinski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The PGE-owned mine is wedged between communities in Czechia, Germany and Poland and is causing structural damage to nearby housing. Its new licence is based on a poorly executed environmental impact assessment that forecasts water depletion caused by the mine to be less in 2044 than it already is today. Polish, Czech and German NGOs are mounting a legal challenge against the licence, citing the damage the mine is doing to people\u2019s drinking water, the nearby Miedzianka River, and the climate.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe decision to extend Tur\u00f3w\u2019s licence to 2044 shows just how detached our Ministry of Climate and Environment is from reality. We are living through a time of war and a cost of living crisis, both driven by fossil fuels. Poland should want to invest in cheap, peacebuilding renewables that ensure permanently affordable energy and protect the climate, not in fossil fuels like coal that damage people\u2019s water supplies and houses,\u201d said Anna Meres, Climate Campaign Coordinator at Greenpeace Poland.<\/p>\n\n

„People and businesses in Poland are already paying eye-wateringly high energy bills because the government refuses to properly invest in renewable energy. That\u2019s why heat pump sales are up 120 percent and people are rapidly fitting solar panels to their roofs \u2013 they realise this is the best way to bring down their bills. Sadly, Bogatynia has been sold a scam. The region has already lost out on over EUR 210 million in EU just transition funding because PGE refuses to make plans to close Tur\u00f3w. At the same time, nobody will buy electricity from Tur\u00f3w Power Plant when renewables offer the same but several times cheaper,\u201d said Rados\u0142aw Gawlik, president of the EKO-UNIA Ecological Association.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSolar and wind produce more of the EU\u2019s electricity than coal or gas. Even this winter in the midst of our worst energy crisis, we\u2019ve burnt less coal to generate electricity than we did the previous winter. Yet Polish authorities have granted a 21-year licence extension to a coal mine that cannot operate past 2030 under EU climate goals, and already makes no economic sense given how cheap renewables are. This decision can only be understood as a calculated choice to put the interests of a coal company ahead of those of ordinary people, and climate protection,\u201d said Michal Zablocki, campaigner at Europe Beyond Coal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poland\u2019s Ministry for Climate and Environment has approved a 21-year licence extension for the country’s Tur\u00f3w coal mine, tying the fate of the Bogatynia region to an industry in terminal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":15251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energeticka-revoluce","tag-konec-doby-fosilni","p4-page-type-tiskova-zprava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/czech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}