Posted on 09/20/2021 4:53:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Court of Justice slapped Poland with a €500,000 ($586,000) daily fine on Monday in response to the country’s refusal to shut down the Turow open-cast lignite mine near the Czech border.
The Czech Republic took the case to court over complaints that the mine is causing cross-border environmental hazards, especially as it concerns air and water quality.
In May, the EU’s top court told Poland to shut down the mine, though Poland has refused to comply. In June, Prague asked the EU’s top court to fine Poland €5 million ($5.9 million) per day for failing to halt production at the mine. […]
Poland still relies on coal for 80% of its power needs and has vowed to shut its last mine by 2049, in line with EU targets.
“Poland did not leave its citizens without energy and did not close the mines overnight,” Marcin Romanowski, Poland’s deputy justice minister, wrote on Twitter.
“It is judicial robbery and theft in broad daylight. You won’t get a cent,” he added. …
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When will climate activists demand carpet bombing of China’s 1082 coal fired power plants?
EU is economic suicide
Poland has always gotten the shaft from its European counterparts. I swear, doesn’t ANYONE stand up for the little guy anymore?
Poles need to lose the EU.
Poland to EU : “Pierdol się!”
Social suicide too.
“Poland did not leave its citizens without energy and did not close the mines overnight,” Marcin Romanowski, Poland’s deputy justice minister, wrote on Twitter. “It is judicial robbery and theft in broad daylight. You won’t get a cent,”
Poland should dump the EU and its unaccountable, unelected fascist 'holes in Brussels.
Euro-morons are going to need that coal before this winter is through.
Sounds great. Just resign. Then the EU has as much legitimacy as fining Paraguay.
ExitPole coming soon..
Good luck collecting.
What if Poland doesn’t pay? What can they do?
Germany and the Czech Republic have both complained about an increase in noise and dust brought about by the plant’s expansion, though Poland argues both countries have their own lignite mines near their borders with Poland. …This is leftist bullying and “soft tyranny”. If the EU ever got its own military (which there is a renewed call for after what Biden did to them in Afghanistan), guess what will be one of the things it’ll be used for.
I’d tell the EU to F off.
Polexit.
I’m sure that’s something politenessman wouldn’t approve. :)
Don’t pay...or charge non-Poles who come into Poland an entry fee...
“What if Poland doesn’t pay? What can they do?”
I suspect they’re like Hungary and are a net recipient of ‘financial aid’ from the EU, so the level will just get dropped. And, by the way, that’s what keeps Hungary in the EU, despite all the Shiite they keep getting from the EU (the latest being to allow gay recruiting in their schools).
See #6
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