Ecological seen, Poland - the driving force coal-producing country has a great interest over the years. Although coal has a lot of economic prosperity for this country, the Poles suffered greatly and the environment at the hands of the pollution.
Coal mining in Poland is a long-industry. The first mine was officially founded in 1776 in Szczakowa. Today, in the central region of the country, the Silesian Basin, the most important mining area. Poland produces about 140 million tons of coal per year, so most of the income generated in Poland. To take the most important trading partner in Europe, where Germany, France, Italy and others. The Poles themselves use the fuel in power generation. In fact is 93% of Polish energy use from coal.
But with this resource, the natural contraction. It was feared in the early 1990s that the excessive use of coal would cause serious environmental damage. But the fear of the destruction of the economy continue to impact on the environment, so that the pollution issue outweigh not brought to an abrupt halt. Tests conducted later in the mining region of Silesia, showed more cases of respiratory and circulatory problems, high lead levels in the blood of children, and more cases of cancer. Large amounts of land were considered unsuitable for agriculture by industrial wastes. 65% of Poland's river water was found loaded with enough rusting industrial equipment according to a report in 1990. Vistulas the river was an important contribution to the Baltic Sea pollution.
Today, the issue of reforming the coal industry is a sensitive issue, but the Polish government has a fair progress in solving the problem of pollution. Under her movements recently, an institute coal mining restructuring in 2003 that closed some mines. Kompania Welglowa - - the largest mining companies in Europe were in 2002 five mining companies merged into one. But moving the reform is not on the recent efforts. Already in the late 1980s, this movement began with effect. One of them was the 1991 State Environmental Protection Inspectorate, which are managed sensitive to pollution industries.