Deputy Minister of Climate: does not produce new coal by building new coal mines in Poland
Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Piotr Dziadzio. Photo PAP / Grzegorz Michałowski
We do not recommend eccentric energy investments by building new coal mines in Poland, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Piotr Dziadzio told PAP. He added that the availability of the service concessions for exploration and exploitation of properties is not visible either.
Deputy head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Chief National Geologist Piotr Dziadzio, asked by PAP whether in the context of the ongoing in Ukraine, sanctions imposed on Belarus and Russia and the ongoing energy packaging, Polish management plans to run new coal mines, he said through national inspections that there are no such results.
“Not recently with any new application”
“There has not been such a company recently, and no mining license has been issued for a mining coal miner, which would be related to the construction of a new company. At the moment, this new mining license, on the basis of which the operator planned the production of mining products, was a production license Brzezinka 3, 2020 We do not provide services in the construction of new mines, although the situation on the energy services market has changed a lot – said Dziadzio.
Insight into the attention that in the near future it will be possible to keep coal at the level of generating capacity. “This issue is being analyzed by the mining and energy company. It seems that in the perspective of 2050, this raw material will also be used. Looking at the current development of renewable energy sources and society’s drive towards a low and zero-emission economy, the Internet service, the technical service, the time horizon will decline “- he said.
Chief National Geologist that currently, due to the ban on coal imports from Russia, other directions of its supply are being launched (e.g. from Austria or South Africa). It has to do above all. Imported coal, which we want to find, will be used in the large energy sector, which has its source in the method of solving the mining problem.
The department of state-owned companies recently informed that from January to December 2021, 31.4 million tons of hard coal and 52.2 million tons of lignite were sent from Polish sea mines to the shaft and lever energy industry. In 2021, hard coal imports 1 12.55 million tons more, for example.
End of Russian gas imports
The deputy head of the health resort, climate and environment, added that there is currently no improvement in activity and in terms of concessions when it comes to maintenance (oil and gas in the country.
The end of Russian gas imports became a fact on April 27, when Gazprom stopped delivering itself to Poland. The Polish government planned to part with blue fuel from the East from 2023.
“Implemented from late investments in a strategic situation where you want to satisfy the market without entering it. Plans to market without imports from Russia, which will also happen when the next situation occurs. It quickly happens that you can change something to change something in this direction.
the natural gas company in Poland amounts to approx. 20 billion cubic meters. per year, of which domestic production up to 3.7 billion six. (MUSH)
author: Michał Boroń
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