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Polish ruling coalition party PSL against building nuclear power plant

Jan 21 – IntelliNews – Weekly Reports

http://www.energybiz.com/article/14/01/polish-ruling-coalition-party-psl-against-building-nuclear-power-plant

The Supreme Council of the junior coalition partner, the Polish Peasants’ Party (PSL) has prepared a resolution calling for withdrawal from Poland’s plans to build its first nuclear power plant. According to unofficial sources of the Polish Press Agency , the Council – the party’s top authority – is due to vote the document during its next sitting in three months’ time.

According to the news agency, the resolution’s advocates include the Council’s head Jaroslaw Kalinowski (former vice-premier) and PSL’s parliamentary caucus head Jan Bury (former vice-minister of treasury).

Poland plans to launch the first 3000 MW nuclear power block in 2023 or 2024 and the second peer block – two years later. However, a few months ago, PM Donald Tusk admitted that this plan should be realised in a slightly more distant future.

The nuclear project is to be carried out by Poland’s biggest power utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE). Earlier, PGE signed a letter of intent concerning participation in the preparation, construction and operation of a nuclear power plant with blue-chip copper and silver producer KGHM and two other power utilities: Tauron Polska Energia and Enea. The document’s validity ended at the end of 2013, but the firms pledged to continue cooperation in this field.

January 22, 2014 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized