“We are in talks with the EC that we will have to mine more coal for a while for national security reasons,” Deputy Minister of State Assets Piotr Pyzik informed on Wednesday. Our energy balance is 70 percent based on coal. We will not change this in 2-3 days (…). Coal is the basis for us for the coming years. (…) We won’t get rid of this coal, not because we don’t want to or can’t, but because we don’t have anything to replace it with.”