On February 15, 2021, over 100 miners in Lupeni mine in Valea Jiului
(Jiu Valley) – a mine [in Romania] that is still functioning but that is
earmarked for closure following negotiation with the European Union –
refused to come out when their shift ended and declared a strike. In the
following days, hundreds of miners in the region protested in
solidarity. The immediate reason for the strike is clear. The company
that hires the miners (Hunedoara Energy Complex) is bankrupt and hence
was unable to pay their salaries and bonuses for some months. However,
the situation is much more dramatic than that and the causes are
systemic. Chief among them is de-carbonization and the social costs of
moving away from fossil fuel. While the miners are sure victims, their
protest was quickly politically instrumentalized in both old and novel
ways – to which I will return below.
https://lefteast.org/de-carbonization-and-climate-denial-populism-in-valea-jiului/
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