One EPS worker lost his life, while another was slightly injured when a crane cable broke during loading at the "Radljevo Sever" assembly site in the "Kolubara" Mining Basin.
Elektroprivreda Srbije announced that the worker Z. was killed. N.
After the dismissal of Kolubara employee Goran Perišić, citizens blocked the Miloš Veliki highway near Lajkovac as a sign of protest. The Gendarmerie intervened, several people were detained, and the media also reported on the use of pepper spray. Perišić claims that the dismissal is politically motivated, because he publicly criticized the government
Whoever supports students in EPS is threatened with dismissal. This also happened to Goran Perišić, the president of the "Jedinstvo Kolubara" working body. But he won't give up, because "he doesn't know what kind of parent it is that doesn't support children". That is why he is going to Kragujevac on Saturday
Two workers lost their lives in the canal at the ash dump of the "Kolubara" thermal power plant in Veliki Crljeni. "According to current information, the tragedy occurred while hired workers were mowing grass along the canal," EPS announced.
The thesis that is mentioned in the public that EPS, if only there was enough coal, could have earned a billion euros from exporting electricity is wrong. With the existing production capacity of EPS, this was simply not possible; on the contrary, due to very poor hydrology and despite the full production of electricity from coal, Serbia would still have to import smaller amounts of electricity. That is why the priority is the construction of new capacities, the only question is - which ones
Kosovo sells 100.000 tons of coal at a minimum price of 29 euros per ton, more than double the price in June last year. It is expected that the price of coal on the world stock exchanges will rise even more. Two months ago, the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, rejected the proposal of President Aleksandar Vučić to exchange Serbian electricity for Kosovo coal.
Serbia could have avoided all this mess with electricity if the management of EPS had listened to experts who had been warning for years that it was necessary to move to new coal deposits and stop digging up already exhausted deposits. As if out of spite, the system "broke" at the most inconvenient moment, so the total damage that EPS will suffer will probably reach more than one billion euros. This is how we got into a situation where EPS, instead of investing and building a new Štavalj thermal power plant, throws that money at importing electricity. At the same time, no one can guarantee that Serbia will have enough electricity during the winter
Last night, a fire broke out at the Tamnava coal mine in Kolubara, which engulfed the machine for disposing of coal tailings. Firefighters localized it in the early hours of the morning, but the fire left the sixth line on the list of accidents that have befallen EPS in recent times.
"If I say now what everyone knows, that people who are incompetent came from the smallest manager to the top, is that a political story?" They are talking now about diversions. Well, this is an ambush suicide. Against whom was the diversion made? Against himself?”
EPS announces that due to "unexplained circumstances" and "deliberate errors in work", the police and security services will be looking for those responsible for the collapse of TENT. The investigation, therefore, will go in the direction of some third columnists and saboteurs, and not the completely incompetent progressive cadre, which includes acting director Milorad Grcic himself.
While a large part of Serbia is without electricity or heating, the authorities blame "wet and heavy snow". Critics, however, say that this is the result of years of inexpert management of large systems such as TENT, Elektroprivreda or Kolubarski kopi.
On Thursday, the Government of Serbia will vote on changes to the Law on Expropriation. The basic court in Valjevo issued a temporary ban on the work of the company Euro Lithium Balkan following the lawsuit of the "March from Kolubare" movement.
