Polish Blockade Against Russian Coal May End

Though polish miners have been blocking a railway for trains carrying Russian coal across the border, RT News reported that the workers may end their blockade after reaching a deal with the government to better protect Poland’s coal industry. Mining union leaders in Poland are calling for an embargo on Russian coal to protect domestic companies that are “losing hundreds of millions of euros.”

As quoted in the publication:

On Wednesday, Polish PM Ewa Kopacz asked parliament to speed up the introduction of new coal trade laws, and announced she was commissioning a report on the country’s coal mining industry, Polish Radio reported. The policy shift came after over 200 Polish miners blocked the delivery of Russian coal at a railway crossing at the Branevo-Mamonowo border post.

A planned October 1 protest by the Solidarity miners’ union in Warsaw will go ahead as planned, said Kolorz, the union’s leader.

The miners, who hail from the southwest Silesia region of Poland, sent PM Kopacz a petition that said imports from Russia were “unfair” are “ruining” the Polish mining industry and taking local jobs.

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