KNURÓW, Poland: “It’s a family thing. My father, my grandfather were miners, so I am,“ says Arkadiusz Wojcik at a coal mine in the southern Polish town of Knurow.Defying the danger to life and limb of descending into the mine on a daily basis, Poland’s coal miners still pass down the job from father to son. The occupation may be on its way out in much of the West, but in Poland’s Silesian coal country it is thriving thanks to high wages and support from a government that refuses to decarbonise the economy.In Brussels, Berlin and Paris, coal is the …read more
Source: theSun
