(Polish) Gov't wants to invest wisely in renewable energy sources - minister

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https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/govt-wants-to-invest-wisely-in-renewable-energy-sources---minister-5387

Gov't wants to invest wisely in renewable energy sources - minister

(PAP) mr/jch/ March 30, 2019

The government wants to invest sensibly in renewable energy sources and focus in the near future on photovoltaic and biogas plants, Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski said on Saturday.

Speaking at a symposium organised at a Catholic university in Toruń, northern Poland, the minister said that the government has decided, having settled the issue with the mining community, that the extension of the Ostrołęka power plant in northeastern Poland will be the country's last investment in a coal-fired power plant.

Tchórzewski underlined that renewable energy sources must be built and that the United Right government is not neglecting this issue, but at the same time it is guided by the principles of rationality in the entire energy sector.

"This energy cannot interfere with the public, we want to focus more on photovoltaics. (...) It is more needed than wind energy. We will also invest in the construction of biogas plants, he declared.

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[Kurt V.]

1. this a shocker really. they just had pence there promoting coal.

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2. Perhaps that's why Pence was there...

To try and talk them out of it, and perhaps that helped convince them to do it.

[hatrack]

3. "So, yeah, this new plant which will operate for 50 years, it's the last one, really!"

"I can stop anytime I want to. I consider myself more of a recreational heroin user than anything else."

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4. The First Step is to Acknowledge You Have a Problem: Driving Decisions in Public Policy

https://www.govloop.com/community/blog/first-step-acknowledge-problem-driving-decisions-public-policy/

The First Step is to Acknowledge You Have a Problem: Driving Decisions in Public Policy

Christopher Thomas | August 28, 2017

There are always people in your life that utter one sentence or phrase that sticks with you forever. Something that changes your view or approach on life. One for me was a professor of organizational psychology who said he hated the phrase “it was a breakdown in communication” as a way to justify organizational issues. He stated that the phrase was overused and did not address the source of the problem. What was missing, he would go on to state, is that most people and organizations avoid understanding the severity of the issue. I realized, there is a difference in acknowledging a problem and addressing a problem head on.

Recently, I have been meeting with my colleagues to research all of the major issues governments will focus on in the coming years. It is interesting to me, that some of the problems that are surfacing have been discussed before, they are just relabeled. Years later, we still find ourselves with no solution to the same problems. What most people do not know, is that the first step, identifying the problem, is easy. The second step, understanding the problem and how to address it, is where the real challenge lies.

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