2024-06-24 18:51:34
CTK
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Mining within the Bílina lignite mine might finish by 2030, not in 2035, for which it obtained a mining allow. ČEZ Group’s technique is to finish coal mining by 2030, however Bílina would stay in operation till 2035 if an sudden scenario arose, mentioned ČEZ spokesman Ladislav Kříž.
Representatives of the semi-state firm additionally said on the firm’s common assembly on Monday that the way forward for vitality is in renewable sources. Even 20 years in the past, electrical energy from coal made up the primary a part of the corporate’s revenue, at the moment most of CEZ’s electrical energy is produced by nuclear energy crops.
“We assume that coal mining will finish by 2030 – and thus mining in Bílina. However we’ll see how the scenario on the vitality markets will develop. We skilled it two years in the past, when the vitality disaster started with the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. At such a second every part is altering. For now, we do not make any sturdy guarantees to construct mining in Bílina by 2030, however in fact our assumption is that using brown coal within the Czech Republic will finish by 2030,” mentioned Kříž.
In line with the spokesperson, it’s essential to have reserves in case something sudden occurs. If the heating crops didn’t have time to alter their manufacturing base and in some cities the heating crops wanted coal, mining in Bílina would stay even after 2030, he mentioned. Severočeské doly from the ČEZ group has a allow to mine within the quarry from the mining workplace till 2035.
Numerous environmental organizations have been protesting towards the extension of mining for a very long time. Greenpeace ČR and Hnúti Duha wrote in a press launch that the ČEZ firm on the Ledvice energy plant, which takes a big a part of the coal from Bílina, has given up on the plan to put in a cloth filter and is testing different choices to scale back mercury emissions under the emission restrict.
“If she fails to take action, she is going to request an extension of the exemption for this energy plant for the so-called ‘lifetime’, i.e. till the tip of operation. Nonetheless, this is able to imply that the latest coal-fired energy plant block within the Czech Republic, which takes a big a part of coal from Bílina, would shut on the newest till 2029, as exemptions can solely be obtained for eight years from their introduction in 2021,” the organizations mentioned.
Jaroslav Bican, head of the vitality marketing campaign of Greenpeace CR, identified that it’s nonetheless vital to unravel the violation of hygienic noise limits, which, in keeping with him, nonetheless happens within the quarry. “The more severe information is that ČEZ plans to switch coal on a big scale with pure gasoline, i.e. one fossil gas for an additional,” he added.