First public debate on the planned Ostrołeka C power plant.
We most warmly invite you to a conference ‘Social and environmental threats posed by construction and operation of the coal-fired Ostrołeka C power plant’. It is going be the very first debate showing the actual scale of negative impacts of Ostrołeka C since the plan to build it was announced. Experts and practitioners in energy transformation, public health and impacts of coal-fire power plants on the environment.
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'For and even against it' of Minister Tchórzewski
Poland’s Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski told reporters at the Economic Forum in Krynica that he wants Ostrołęka C to be the last new coal-fired power plant built in Poland. During the same event, however, he stated that ‘Poland will not give up investment in coal and will build new coal-fired power plants’. The inconsistency of the Minister's statement raises the question whether the government has any climate and energy policy.
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Capacity market will not help coal - new power plants are like castles built on sand
There is an ongoing debate on the rationality of building new power plants in the face of the global end of coal. The recently published two articles show that the capacity market will not help coal and that most of the new power plants planned in Europe have not been created at all. Meanwhile, ENERGA completely fails to notice these threats and is going further into the project of the Ostrołęka C power plant.
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‘Green light’ for Ostrołęka
On August 20 2017, the Society for the Earth and the Green Institute is starting the ‘Green Light’ social action. As part of the campaign, 40 families from 16 towns in the Ostrołęka county (Mazovian voivodeship) will receive energy-efficient lighting free of charge. The aim of the project is to draw attention to the problem of energy poverty and the role of increasing energy efficiency in the fight against it.
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ENERGA avoids answering inconvenient questions
During the Annual General Meeting NGOs asked the ENERGA Group several questions related to the Ostrołęka C power plant project. The company’s response overlooks numerous key issues regarding profitability of this project and its environmental impacts.
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