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AN ENVIRONMENTAL group is suing the operator of Poland’s giant Belchatow power plant, seeking to make Europe’s single biggest carbon-dioxide emitter end its use of coal by 2035.
The ClientEarth Foundation said today that its “unprecedented” lawsuit has been filed with the provincial court in the central city of Lodz.
It calls on the power plant to “discontinue activity that threatens the environment” and stop using coal, or install carbon gas filters by 2035.
Poland was one of four EU countries to veto a bid to commit to the bloc going carbon-neutral by 2050 in June, although its negotiators suggested it might back down if more money was allocated to it in the EU budget.
Belchatow is Europe’s largest coal-powered energy plant, and Poland’s largest energy supplier.
Poland relies on coal for 80 per cent of its energy and coal-mining is one of the biggest employers, facts that prevent a quick withdrawal from coal. Government plans say coal could be phased out sometime after 2040.
