by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Transport and Usage
Fifteen European governments have developed coal phase-out plans, with Austria, Belgium, and Sweden now coal power free. While phaseouts are welcomed, almost all of them are too slow to avoid catastrophic climate change, and too often part of energy transitions that...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Transport and Usage
On 30 May 2020, a new hard coal power plant, Datteln 4, was commissioned on the periphery of the West-German Ruhr area, a traditional coal mining area. Located on the Datteln-Ems canal, next to the old coal power station units Datteln 1-3, the power plant is less than...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Transport and Usage
By Alina Pogoda from the Polish Green Network In Poland, hard coal is exploited in 21 mines, mostly in the Silesia region. In 1990, 388,000 people were employed in the hard coal sector. By 2020, this number had declined to 83,000. The Polish mines have been struggling...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Financial System, Transport and Usage
Far more companies than just mine operators and energy companies render extracting and burning of hard coal possible and cost-efficient. If we look at European companies involved in this dirty business, it is not only investors, banks, and insurance companies that...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Financial System
Providers of capital are key to the planning, permitting, development, and operation of coal mines and the construction of power stations. But it is often very difficult to detect which financiers are supporting the climate-damaging projects of the coal industry. The...
