|
Gąski, Koszalin County
Gąski () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mielno, within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Koszalin and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. It is located on the Slovincian Coast. The village has a population of 400. Gąski is one of the most popular tourists' destination on Polish coast for its beautiful beaches and nature, aiming at sustainable development. Nuclear power station As a result of intense civic mobilisation, a referendum was held in February 2012, in which 94% of the citizens of Mielno voted against the building of a nuclear power station in the village of Gąski. The citizens' protest had been supported by members of two biggest parliamentary political groups (otherwise supportive for nuclear power): Civic Platform (Koszalin MP Marek Hok) and Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (Koszalin MP Czesław Hoc), as well as non-parliamentary Zieloni 2004, Green Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Power Station
A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. , the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that there were 410 nuclear power reactors in operation in 32 countries around the world, and 57 nuclear power reactors under construction. Most nuclear power plants use thermal reactors with enriched uranium in a once-through fuel cycle. Fuel is removed when the percentage of neutron absorbing atoms becomes so large that a chain reaction can no longer be sustained, typically three years. It is then cooled for several years in on-site spent fuel pools before being transferred to long-term storage. The spent fuel, though low in volume, is high-level radioactiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaside Resorts In Poland
A seaside is the marine coast of a sea. Seaside may also refer to: Places Canada * Seaside Park, British Columbia, also known as Seaside * Sea Side, New Brunswick, a community in Durham Parish United Kingdom * A coastal area in central Scotland; see * Seaside, Carmarthenshire, a settlement on the Carmarthenshire coast of Wales United States * Seaside, California * Seaside, Florida * Seaside, Oregon * Seaside, Queens, a section of Rockaway Beach in New York City * Seaside Heights, New Jersey * Seaside Park, New Jersey Transport * Kanazawa Seaside Line, or simply Seaside, a people mover line in Yokohama, Japan * Seaside station (LIRR Montauk Line), a former name of the Babylon LIRR station in Babylon, New York *Seaside station (LIRR Rockaway Beach), the original name for the IND Rockaway Line in Queens, New York Music * ''Seaside'' (Liane Carroll album), a 2015 jazz album by Liane Carroll * "The Seaside", a song by Janis Ian from the 1971 album ''Present Company'' * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Coastal Places In Poland
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gąski Lighthouse
Gąski Lighthouse ( Polish: ''Latarnia morska Gąski'') is a lighthouse located in Gąski, on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea. The lighthouse is located in Gąski, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Poland. History The lighthouse is located about 100 metres from the coast of the Baltic Sea; situated next to the road between Ustronie Morskie and Mielno. The construction of the lighthouse began in 1876 and was completed about two years later, in 1878. Built from red bricks, the lighthouse has a height of 41.2 metres, with the lighthouse's light having a focal height of 50.1 metres. Originally it was fitted with a Fresnel lens with the light source provided by kerosene lamps. The intermittent beam was achieved by three screens rotated by a clock-work mechanism. In 1927 the kerosene lamps were replaced by electric lamp. In 1948, after the Second World War, the lighthouse was reactivated and the clock mechanism was replaced by an electric motor, with the rotation frequency chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy Democracy
Energy democracy is a concept developed within the environmental justice movement that pairs the renewable energy transition with efforts to democratize the production and management of energy resources— including the social ownership of energy infrastructure, decentralization of energy systems, and expansion of Public participation (decision making), public participation in energy-related policymaking. Energy democracy calls for greater participation in transitions and is being used in literature to describe an overall ongoing democratic transition. Energy democracy and climate justice are increasingly associated. Rather than view low-carbon economy, decarbonization as a purely technological challenge, energy democracy identifies the renewable energy transition as an opportunity to redistribute political and economic power toward egalitarian ends. Energy democracy has been endorsed by community organizations, think tanks, labor unions, and NGOs as a framework for decarbonization. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renewable Energy
Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind power, and hydropower. Bioenergy and geothermal power are also significant in some countries. Some also consider Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy, nuclear power a renewable power source, although this is controversial, as nuclear energy requires mining uranium, a nonrenewable resource. Renewable energy installations can be large or small and are suited for both urban and rural areas. Renewable energy is often deployed together with further electrification. This has several benefits: electricity can heat pump, move heat and Electric vehicle, vehicles efficiently and is clean at the point of consumption. Variable renewable energy sources are those that have a fluctuating nature, such as wind power and solar power. In contrast, ''contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy Policy Of The European Union
The energy policy of the European Union focuses on energy security, Sustainable energy, sustainability, and integrating the energy markets of member states. An increasingly important part of it is climate policy. A key energy policy adopted in 2009 is the Directive 2009/28/EC, 20/20/20 objectives, binding for all EU Member States. The target involved increasing the share of renewable energy in its final energy use to 20%, reduce greenhouse gases by 20% and increase energy efficiency by 20%. After this target was met, Fit for 55, new targets for 2030 were set at a 55% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 as part of the European Green Deal. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU's energy policy turned more towards energy security in their REPowerEU policy package, which boosts both renewable deployment and fossil fuel infrastructure for alternative suppliers. The Treaty of Lisbon, EU Treaty of Lisbon of 2007 legally includes solidarity in matters of energy supply a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg (; ; ) is a port and spa city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants (). Kołobrzeg is located on the Parsęta River on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (in the middle of the section divided by the Oder River, Oder and Vistula Rivers). It is the capital of Kołobrzeg County. During the Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages, Early Middle Ages, the Pomeranians (Slavic tribe), Pomeranian tribes established a settlement at the site of modern-day Budzistowo. In 1000, when the city was part of Poland, it became the seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg, one of five oldest Polish dioceses. During the Pomerania during the High Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, the town was expanded with an additional settlement inhabited by German settlers a few kilometers north of the stronghold and chartered with Lübeck law, which settlement eventually superseded the original Pomeranian settlement. The city later joined the Hanseatic League. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zieloni 2004
The Greens ( ) is a political party in Poland. It was formed in 2003 under the name "Greens 2004" and formally registered itself in February 2004. It supports principles of green politics, and it is positioned on the centre-left and leans towards the left-wing. The party is an international member of the Global Greens, European member of European Green Party and cooperates with the European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. History The party was established in 2003 by activists of several social movements. Among its founding members were environmentalists, feminists, LGBT people and anti-war activists. The first political campaign of the emerging party concerned the Polish European Union membership referendum, the Greens campaigned for a "yes" vote. Greens 2004 took part in the movement against the Iraq War in 2003 and participated in Equality Parades and other social protests in the time of "Fourth Republic" (2005–2007). Since 3 March 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czesław Hoc
Czesław Hoc (born 22 February 1954) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 10,746 votes in the 40-Koszalin district, as a candidate of the Law and Justice. Prior to his entry into politics, Hoc was a doctor at the Kołobrzeg Medical Center, receiving his doctorate of medicine from the Pomeranian Medical University in 1979. During a local referendum, MP Hoc supported the antinuclear movement in Mielno and Gąski where 94% of inhabitants voted against Polish government's NPP location. He became a Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ... (MEP) in November 2015, replacing Marek Gróbarczyk. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005–07 References External linksSejm page* 1954 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
