About 1,000 miners and workers from Bulgaria's largest coal-fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs and to urge the government to support their industry.
SOFIA (Reuters) - About 1,000 miners and workers from Bulgaria's largest coal-fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs and to urge the government to support their industry.
SOFIA (Reuters) - About 1,000 miners and workers from Bulgaria s largest coal-fired power plant marched in Sofia on Wednesday to protect their jobs and to urge the government to support their industry. Demonstrators called on the Cabinet to guarantee it would not rush to shut mines and power plants at the Maritsa East lignite coal complex in southern Bulgaria, despite a European Union push to decarbonise the bloc s economy by 2050. There should be green, clean energy, but time is needed for investment first, said Spaska Ruskova, 58, who works for a mining equipment company. It will probably happen for our grandchildren, but it cannot happen now, because hundreds of families are destined to lose their jobs and doomed to high power bills, she said. Bulgaria needs to set a date when it will phase out power generation from coal if it wants to draw on EU recovery funds and meet the bloc s climate goals. The interim government has said it will present its plan for EU aid to Brussels on Frida