Shops idling: lawmaker spoke about consequences of stopping Chervonohrad enrichment plant

An eight-month shutdown of the Chervonohrad enrichment plant directly worsens the financial state of the state mines of the Lviv-Volyn basin.

Why the mines of Lviv region are not operating. The deputy explained that coal from local mines requires mandatory enrichment before use at thermal power plants. When the plant is not operating, the fuel produced is harder to sell, and the mines do not receive funds. "Therefore these eight months are effectively the idle time for these mines. Because a non-working plant creates exactly the decline that occurs," said Bondar. The situation at the Chervonohrad enrichment plant. According to Mykhailo Bondar, due to the lack of revenue from product sales, the enterprise largely depends on state support. "People do not receive wages from the sale of the produced products; they essentially receive only from the state: this state support that arrives. Accordingly, there are no funds for the constant, daily operation of these mines," the deputy noted. It should be noted that the situation around the Chervonohrad enrichment plant has worsened amid the protracted rehabilitation procedure of PJSC Lvivskauholna Kompaniia (Lviv Coal Company), management problems at the enterprise, wage arrears, and the actual stoppage of production processes. In the course of the court battles with appointing a new manager, the enterprise has been idling for 8 months. Also read: Launch of the Chervonohrad enrichment plant under threat: lawmaker revealed details of the conflict. It should be recalled that the deputy, head of the Verkhovna Rada subcommittee on energy security Viktoriia Hryb stated that without the Chervonohrad enrichment plant, the mines have a harder time shipping the coal extracted, and the country is losing time to form fuel reserves for the winter.

More details about how the shutdown of the Chervonohrad enrichment plant became a matter of energy security and a test for the government can be read in RBK-Ukraine's material.