Polish coal is surviving only with heavy public subsidies. In 2025, taxpayers will spend 9 billion złoty propping up the sector. That is about 600 zloty per household, or 10% of the country’s annual personal income tax revenue, calculates energy news website Wysokie Napięcie.
According to state pollster CBOS, 83% of Poles said in 2025 that they have “high esteem” for the mining profession, the same share as in 1987.
In 2021, miners struck a deal with the PiS government allowing coal mining to continue until 2049, despite warnings that coal would likely be unviable long before then.
Coz politics are all pussies, from this and that side. They all are afraid of miner-voters who gonna hate them if gov cuts river of coins.
Miner-fucks knows, they can ask for anything, and pussy gov will give it to them, so they not only getting massive monies for mine industry, both mining, and refine too, but also 13th salary per year to every miner, 14th, 15th and sometimes even 17th month salary, yet taxes go nice on them.
Even more, miners can do block any green energy projects, so Poland can’t go eco. For sake of miner lobby, pis (political party of 2015-2023 and semi 2015-2030+), made a law that made impossible wind farm to be made, for sake to secure human houses - no single wind farm can be made within x meters next to any house. With most regions that have many very small villages, it made nearly impossible for wind farms to happen. Nuclear energy is a nope too. for same reason. (as x distance, pardon me, forgot, think it was 1500m, but don’t quote me on number).
And yet, any shallow coal source are depleted, mining deeper layers are super expensive, miners do block buyout by non-polish tech giants, as they would have to work for non-polish company. GG nationalism. Obviously polish companies don’t have tech, so it is super expensive to mine there… so expensive, that polish gov, to keep coal-power plants, have to buy coal from China, India, or until recently, a lot from russia.
Big win for poland.
Ps. In Poland, global warming doesn’t exist.