1-4-2014
IPCC experts warn: we are ill-prepared for climate change impacts, the poorest will suffer most
On the 31st of March 2014 the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fifth Assessment Report was released. ‘A changing climate creates pervasive risks but opportunities exist for effective responses’ write the authors. Read more »
20-3-2014
AVAAZ Poll reveals – Polish citizens for renewable energy
88% of Polish citizens think that in order to become independent from Russian gas, Poland needs to develop its own sources of renewable energy. More than 2/3 of the respondents perceive climate change as grave threat to them and their children – reveals the public opinion poll commissioned by a global civic organization AVAAZ. Read more »
7-3-2014
No financing for Elektrownia Północ
According to wnp.pl nobody knows yet who Elektrownia Północ is going to be financed by. Though the investment process started almost five years ago, and the investor keeps claiming that the ongoing problems of the investment are insignificant, it seems that Elektrownia Północ still has no financing. Read more »
6-2-2014
Victory for fish at Polnoc power plant
Poland’s General Director of Environmental Protection (GDOS) has ruled that an investment in the construction of Poland’s “North” (“Polnoc”)power plant would jeopardize species of fish found in the lower reaches of the Vistula River. The General Director agreed with environmental and nature protection NGOs and affirmed partial invalidity of the plant’s environmental impact assessment permit (EIA). Read more »
31-1-2014
More than 3000 people support StopEP on 350.org
More than 3000 people have signed the Stop Elektrowni Północ petition on the 350.org campaign platform. Together with 350.org we appeal to the investor that he withdrew from building the Elektrownia Północ coal power plant. Read more »
Where will the coal used in the Północ power plant come from?
Nobody knows it for such, but it is rather unlikely that the Północ Power Plant will burn Polish coal. It is no accident that the power plant is to be built in northern Poland – a long distance from coal mines, but with excellent railway connection to the nearby harbour in Gdynia, which docks are famous for welcoming coal ships from distant places such as Chile, China or Australia. Foreign coal is cheaper and of higher quality than the domestic resource. Today the majority of coal Poland imports is from Russia. In Poland, almost 90% of energy is produced from coal. Strategically speaking, it’s inadvisable to further increase this reliance on coal, especially when international treaties such as the Paris Agreement oblige us to reduce CO2 emissions. To produce energy profitably, we may find ourselves having to import coal from China, for example. Large coal plants are a long-term − several decades or more − investment, and recent economic changes have clearly shown that we should not lock ourselves in coal dependence.
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