Barbara's tonight. Sad vacation for Polish mining, for advanced Silesia and Poland. A sad vacation for me, too. The male part of my household has worked for respective generations on 2 Siemianowice mines of KWK “Siemianowice” (formerly – Vereinigte Siemianowitz Steinkohlengruben) and KWK “Michal”. There, in the late 19th century, my great-grandfather, Joseph Maniura, died. There he was wounded by the Germans on September 1, 1939, my great-grandfather Joseph Boruta. From there my great-grandfather Mikołaj Jastrzębski went to the Silesian Uprising. My father Eugenius worked his full life there. These mines are gone.
Subsequent governments after 1989 under different names liquidated our coal manufacture at Brussels' request. The Law and Justice Government, despite social rhetoric, consistently liquidates further mines in the interests of the large and powerful. It was during the regulation of this formation that the final timetable for the liquidation of hard coal mines in Poland was presented, which would not be ashamed of Balcerowicz and Buzek. For many years, “good changes” have been released in a tiny number of miners. It's not just the PiS's actions that's coming.
It is crucial to remember that the biggest losses for Polish mining are the years of AWS and PO governments. To a large extent, the people liable for destroying mining at the time are Donald Tusk's present political base and the wider Civic Coalition. The opponents of coal supported by abroad centres are effective and influential in Poland.
The conflict in Ukraine showed how powerfully we are dependent on coal from outside Poland. Especially Russian coal. present we bought coal at fabulously advanced prices in exotic countries. Our coal power plants and another plants in our country will most likely be operating for another 50 years. Our Polish mining manufacture has liquidated and continues to liquidate without a real alternative. Logic indicates that you gotta have real safety first, and then possibly gradually leave coal. And I'm marking it as possible. due to the fact that we don't know if the mining processes will change in a fewer years and if they won't be profitable. fresh technologies will most likely usage black gold. According to experts, coal is future-oriented, as serious economies like Chinese, American or Russian know.
Ecology is an apparent tool for powerful and influential. It aims to safe the remains of manufacture in colonized countries. It is worth noting that a fewer years ago the planet Bank lent EUR 250,000,000 to Poland for an “ecological programme” implemented by the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management as part of the Clean Air project. The money was intended for subsidies and various kinds of incentives to exchange furnaces. It was about fighting coal, of course. The planet Bank itself did not hide it. "With the Polish institutions and the European Commission, 3 years ago we helped to make the basis of a universal, nationwide programme to improve air quality in Poland. Our cooperation now comes to a higher level through a combination of financial and substantive support aimed at strengthening Clean Air. We want to support the decarbonisation of territory heating in 5 years of our partnership, work to make the programme more accessible and aid velocity up," said the planet Bank manager for the European Union, Gallina A. Vincelette.
I attended 2 meetings with the Deputy Minister in the government of Józef Oleks Jerzy Markowski (he was Secretary of State in the Ministry of manufacture and Trade from 1995 to 1996, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy in 1997). The meetings afraid the condition of Polish mining, of course. For many years, I have been saying that 2 experts Andrzej Szczęśniak (you can read his column in “The Polish Thought”) and Jerzy Markowski talk about Polish mining and wider Polish energy security. These meetings confirmed it.
Markowski's lecture could be boldly titled "How Polish mining in the 3rd Poland was destroyed". any data. We have coal in Poland for 200 years on current extraction. This is simply a documented case. erstwhile the Polish People's Republic was converted to a fresh Poland, we had 72 mines, more than 480,000 miners and mining of 198 million tonnes. This was among another things the legacy of the large patriot John Mithragi. What's today? 14 mines (which are inactive closed by the PiS government, despite the full mouth of economical sovereignty clichés) 72,000 miners and a 52 million mining. During Buzek's reign 23 mines were closed, including 11 with deposits Among them were real pearls like KWK Niwka – Modrzejów and KWK Morcinek. The authorities in Poland displayed overzealousness and did much more than the European Union expected. It's hard to believe, but the current government in the sub-arm situation allows for further disposal of miners. In fresh years, more than 4,000 of them have left their jobs. It's a beautiful large mine. Jerzy Markowski surely dealt with the false dogma of Polish participation in global CO2 emissions. He clearly and clearly stated that Poland is not to save the world. We shouldn't care about this at all. Poland's emissions are 1 percent worldwide. And even if we stopped all coal power plants in Poland in 1 day, the planet would not even notice. specified a policy given that China exceeds 4 billion tonnes of coal, India and the US are over 1 billion and Russia 500 million tonnes are suicidal for Europe. According to Markowski, Poland has been implementing a coal elimination programme for years without creating any energy alternative. The United States energy policy is planned for 100 years, in the European Union countries for 20 years, and in Poland for 4 years. This is crazy.
Jerzy Markowski explained precisely why it is nonsense to tell that Poland can trust mainly on RES, accurately calculating wind and solar days. This showed the irrationality of those who endure from any kind of carbophobia in Poland. This attitude occurs on all sides of the political scene. And that's the most tragic thing about this situation.
All Miners – God's happiness, as many trips as reunions! What they murdered our mining of what you deserve.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
