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Poland to become EU’s last remaining producer of hard coal as Czech mine closes
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Mining is ending in the last hard coal mine in the country, the ČSM Mine in the Karviná region. The machines will stop working in the last face on the night shift on Saturday. This will close the 250-year chapter of hard coal mining in the Czech Republic. 750 employees are leaving OKD, and another 150 as of February 28. OKD will take out the symbolic last truck on February 4.
The last black coal mine near Karviná in North Moravia shut down on Saturday, ending the 250-year history of black coal mining in the Czech Republic, the CTK news agency reported.
On Saturday, the 250-year-long chapter of hard coal mining will close in the Czech Republic. The last hard coal mine in the country, the ČSM Mine in the Karviná region, is closing. 750 employees are leaving OKD, the country's sole producer of hard coal, on this date, and another 150 on February 28. OKD will roll out the symbolic last truck on February 4.
During the Saturday night shift, the machines in the last face of the OKD mine will stop. After more than two hundred years, deep mining of hard coal will definitely end in the Czech Republic. The raw material that has fed the entire region for generations is no longer used in the domestic energy sector and the upcoming generations are not flocking to apprenticeship mining fields. We recall the history of OKD and hard coal in the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic Is Finally Ending Its Coal-Fired Operations Today. Poland Is Now Alone in the Eu.
The Czech Republic is closing its last hard coal mine on Saturday and ceasing mining. 750 people will lose their jobs. Another 150 will lose their jobs on February 28th. This move means that Poland has become the only European Union country where this raw material is mined.
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