Letter of Solidarity to the German Miners Defending Their Jobs

The ICEM World Conference for the Energy Industries supports the German miners, who today demonstrate with IG BCE in Dresden during the CDU party convention to keep their jobs and to keep the German hard-coal mining alive.

The German government and the delegates of today’s CDU convention in Dresden are expected to maintain future employment in German hard-coal mining.

The energy report presented to the ICEM World Conference for the Energy Industries outlines the competitiveness of coal as a fuel source and the increasing demand for it.

A future for European coal-fired electricity generation without indigenous coal would be inconceivable. The ICEM World Conference for the Energy Industries supports the European affiliates struggling for the future of hard-coal mining in their countries.