A plan for the biggest greenfield coal project in Europe
Publisher: CEE Bankwatch Network
Volume: 7 pages, pdf
Description:
At a whopping 2000 MW, the planned Pólnoc power plant (Elektrownia Północ) in northern Poland would be the largest greenfield coal-fired power plant in Europe. Located in the Pomerania region, which until now has had no coal industry and in recent years has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the wind energy projects, the plant would sit perilously close to three Natura 2000 sites and cool itself with waters from the nearby Vistula river. This cooling process would pollute the Vistula with mercury and heavy metals from the industial sewage produced by the plant and seriously rise it's temperature and salinity.