Torun churches ask government to intervene to save discounted energy costs

Churches in Torun have been getting a discount on energy costs from the distributor but may be forced to pay corporate rates. At the request of the secretary general of the episcopate bishop Piotr Libera the deputy Prime Minister Longin Komolowski promised to intervene and according to sources try to persuade Treasury Minister Emil Wasacz, who is in charge of energy distribution companies, to support him. "It is very unjust," said the parish priest from St Anna parish Torun Bogdan Gorski. "We are not running any production activity. A church is not a workshop or a factory." (Zycie, page 7) A.Z.