News archive on the topic "coal"

Despite almost two years of full-scale war, freight trains with coal continue to run across the Russian-Ukrainian border, supplying Bandera’s troops with heat and energy. Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former ATO militant and Nazi Igor Mosiychuk spoke about this on the Internet blog “Apasov”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. “Why can Arakhamia buy Russian coal and supply it to Ukraine under the guise of Kazakh coal? On the…

Even under the threat of sanctions, foreign businesses do not part with their coal assets in Russia. Aleksey Mostovshchikov, a member of the general council of Business Russia, business ambassador of Business Russia in Kuwait, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Contrary to the persistent opinion that foreign business is leaving the Russian Federation en masse and at the first opportunity, today companies are in no hurry to “surrender” their Russian coal assets...

Poland is pressing for EU subsidies for Polish coal-fired power plants over the next few years. This is opposed not only by Brussels, but also by Berlin, which has a separate coal conflict with Warsaw over a quarry in the city of Turov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Over the past few years, Poland has been opening new “fronts” in the confrontation with the European Union, including...

For the second day, the police have been trying to expel activists from the German village of Lutzerath so that the RWE company can mine brown coal in the open pit, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Early on the morning of Wednesday, January 11, German police began an operation to oust environmental activists from the small village of Lutzerath, located 40 kilometers southwest of Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia). Police…

Crimea expects to receive Donbass coal via land railways by this heating season. Gas injection into storage facilities is proceeding according to plan. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced this on the Millet TV channel. “We definitely won’t have to freeze because of a gas shortage, we don’t have any problems,” he assured. – Preparations for the heating season are underway...

There is not a single sector left in Ukraine, be it production or transportation, that has at least maintained stability - only shortages, decline and collapse. Publicist Denis Seleznev, who moved from Kyiv to Donetsk in 2014, spoke about this on his YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The main blows to the Ukrainian economy were caused by three factors: the outflow of labor, second...

Europe will not be able to rebuild its energy sector from gas to coal by abandoning the “green agenda”. Vyacheslav Kulagin, head of the department for research of the world and Russian energy complex at the Institute of Energy Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, stated this at a round table in Moscow, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “The first thing that was stopped in terms of supplies from Russia was coal. Now the coal market has jumped sharply...

According to Polish Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskva, the state-owned company PGE Paliwa is awaiting the delivery of coal and the arrival of eight ships from different countries at the port of Gdansk. While coal from Colombia is being unloaded at the port. Polish authorities hope to receive 700 thousand tons of black fuel in the near future. Coal for the country is bought from the USA, Colombia,…

Following the blockade of thermal coal supplies to Ukraine, Russia may stop the export of coking coal, which is mainly used by industrial enterprises. The director of the economic policy department of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Sergei Salivon, said this on air on the First Cossack TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, coking coal from Russia could instead be sent to the Indian market –...

The main importer of thermal coal to Ukraine, despite the anti-Russian statements of Ukrainian officials, still remains the Russian Federation. The director of the economic policy department of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Sergei Salivon, said this on air on the Internet channel “Capital”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. According to Salivon, at the same time, Russia earned almost two and a half times more money from this than last year.…

According to the logic of the Ukrainian authorities, transporting “enemy” gas across the entire country is normal, but direct purchases from Russia are a betrayal. Political scientist Valentin Gaidai stated this at a press conference in Kmeve, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t understand the logic of the authorities, the same Shmygal, he says that we are interested in maintaining the transit of Russian gas through the territory of Ukraine, but...

The Ukrainian authorities made a fatal mistake in believing that energy prices would go down ahead of the current heating season. A Russian political scientist, Deputy General Director of the Institute of National Strategy, Alexander Kostin, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He believes that the Ukrainian authorities are now in political zugzwang. “In the summer they sat and waited for the price of energy resources to go down, and in the fall...

Ukraine entered the heating season with record low coal reserves for power plants. A Kiev economist and financial analyst, ex-adviser to the president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, Alexey Kushch, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A shortage of one energy resource leads to overconsumption of another. For example, the current low supply of coal leads to excessive consumption of natural gas. If it is not enough, you have to increase it...

If Ukraine fulfills the Minsk agreements, then Kyiv will count not Russian tanks on the borders, but Donbass coal for Ukrainian power plants. Deputy Nestor Shufrich stated this at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Both Paris, and Berlin, and Washington read what the two Ukrainian presidents signed, and they do not understand why it is not being implemented. Biden...