The canal project is not able to achieve its goal of connecting the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea via inland navigation. As the project is enormously costly and would lead to huge environmental damage, we ask the European Commission to form its own independent opinion. The affected countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Austria …

The project spanned between May 5th 2009 and December 31st 2010 within FIO 2009 in partnership with EKO-EDUKACJA. The coordinator was Violetta Soltysik. The project created a training manual for schools of differing types (can only be found in print) with conceptualized lessons, which will be shown free of charge to schools during a training workshop for teachers along with …

Declaration of the International Coalition „YES to Development – NO to Opencast mines to prevent building new opencast lignite mines in Europe and to drive European countries transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We, undersigned representatives of associations, social organizations, local governments, civil initiatives and individuals have decided to form the International Coalition „YES to Development – NO to …

BERLIN, 28 January 2020 – Polish authorities have controversially rubber-stamped an environmental permit for the expansion of PGE’s Turów open-pit lignite mine, just hours after receiving critical submissions from a German public consultation process. This indicates that concerns from German people affected by the project are not being taken seriously as part of a crucial process to protect the health …

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PETITION TOOL The seven rules below establish guidance for regional and national authorities developing strategies for, and implementing the just transition at regional level. They are particularly relevant to the ‘country teams’ who discuss and plan the transition, eventually selecting projects to apply for EU funding, under the EU Coal Regions in Transition Initiative. The full implementation of these rules …

Citizens and environmental organizations have emphasized the negative impact of the Turów Mine on the environment, including poor air quality, i.e. the presence of toxic suspended particulate matter and drying of drinking water intakes in the Czech Republic. Dr Hanna Schudy, an activist of EKO-UNIA says – We also point out that in the age of climate disaster counting on …

We will link all three states – the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany – symbolically. We will emphasize that we are living together on one planet, and if we destroy it, it will be a problem for all of us. There are many reasons to participate! Turów mine already has a direct impact on the enormous loss of groundwater that …

Press release by the Ecological Association EKO-UNIA Outstanding experts met to discuss energy perspectives for Poland, and especially energy and climate transition of Lower Silesia in the context of the plans to expand the region’s biggest open-pit lignite mine and power plant in Turów. Referring to social barriers of decarbonisation of economy, Izabela Zygmunt of Bankwatch CEE/Polish Green Network said*: …