Greenpeace activists climbed a 180-metre chimney at a power station in Belchatow, central Poland, on Tuesday to protest Warsaw's coal policies ahead of UN climate talks this month.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-protest-climate-change-poland-power-plant-pollution-carbon-belchatow-a8653891.html

The state-run plant is Poland's biggest power producer, Europe's largest polluter and one of the biggest coal power plants in the world. Nine activists climbed an internal ladder to the top of the conical chimney at the plant, which is fuelled by lignite and belongs to PGE.

"I am from a mining family, we have been connected to coal mining for generations. There is no future in coal. What we need is a just transition from coal and fossil fuels to renewables," Marek Jozefiak, an activist climbing the chimney said. 

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Greenpeace Energy Plans Takeover Bid For RWE’s Coal Business To Replace With Renewables... Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - Hambach Forest - German Police Arrest Activists - Burning Lignite is the OPPOSITE of Energiewende. (Updated 11/28/2018)

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In Poland, local movements are challenging the nation’s addiction to coal. Just Like they are Doing in Germany... Poland is the Second Largest Coal Mining Country after Germany.

https://www.equaltimes.org/in-poland-local-movements-are#.XAAmsmhKiM8
A climate activist wears a mask with the word “Coal” struck-through in Polish as hundreds of environmentalists march to campaign against global warming, in Warsaw, Poland. 

Ending Poland’s dependency on this climate-disastrous industry will not be easy. The ruling nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) government, which has been in power since 2015, almost considers coal-mining a patriotic duty that promotes sovereignty from Russian energy sources, and it has resisted EU-wide anti-coal climate legislation. Similarly, Poland has faced disciplinary measures from the EU about its anti-democratic judicial reforms. This makes the citizens’ assembly in Gdansk all the more remarkable in the way that it deals with climate change through a democratic innovation.

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