Re:Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering
by Retric on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:57AM
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Your description is slightly inaccurate:
In February 2021, the Czech Republic sued Poland over the mine at the European Court of Justice, the first time that an EU member state had sued another one over an environmental issue.[10]
In May 2021, Poland defied an injunction by the court that ordered the immediate closure of the mine, claiming it would have an adverse impact the country's energy system and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.[11]
Because Poland had not ceased lignite extraction activities at the Turów mine, on 20 September 2021, the Vice-President of the Court ordered Poland to pay the European Commission a daily penalty payment of half a million euros,[13] but the Polish government refused to comply.[4]
Which is ridiculous on its own, Poland has been ordered for years to shut down the Turow open-pit mine on the border to Germany and Czechia, they refused and were sentenced to 500.000€ per day of continued operation [1], got 15 million € in EU disbursements held back [2]... the size of that thing is insane [3].
[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/polen-tagebau-turow...
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/polen-eu-kommission-behaelt-n...
[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Tur%C3%B3w#/media/Date...