Bogdanka cuts coal output target for the second time, CEO may lose job

Miner Bogdanka, a unit of power group Enea, cut its 2022 commercial coal output goal for the second time. The miner now sets the target of  8.3 million tonnes versus the previously announced 9.2 million tonnes.

The reduction to the target follows a sudden increase in the pressure in a longwall launched at the end of August, which resulted in technical obstacles to extraction, Bogdanka said. The company took steps to remedy the situation, but works are complicated from organizational and technical points of view, it added.

The supervisory board of Bogdanka will discuss a motion on Friday to remove the mine's chief executive from his post, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin tweeted. Wasil has been Bogdanka's CEO since March 2018.