The state budget for 2019 will provide for 25 million UAH for the Novovolynskaya mine No. 10. This will help keep the mine in trouble-free operation. The volume of financing is optimal until the Ministry of energy and coal industry decides on the further operation of the mine or until it is privatized. (Ukrainian metal)
The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has not taken any decision yet on the shut down of the Novovolynskaya mine No. 9. According to the deputy minister Anatoly Korzun, the mine is intended to yield 90 thousand tons of coal next year and commission two new long faces. “We see no need to shut…
The court has penalized the ex-acting CEO of the state enterprise Volynugol Fedor Bogdan for 3.4 thousand UAH. Bogdan was penalized for the misuse of 5.2 million UAH. At present he occupies the position of the first deputy CEO – technical director of Volynugol. In 2015, when Bogdan was the acting CEO, he informed the…
The state enterprise Volynugol has concluded an agreement with Lviv Coal Company on coal processing for 8.14 million UAH. Previously the customer has cancelled the trade 2 times because of the lack of participants. Earlier orders presupposed the processing of 42700 tons of coal at 95 UAH per ton. Lviv Coal Company will be processing…
Employees of the Novovolynskaya Mine No. 9 have been striking for 10 days already because of the wage debts. Now they have made a strike near the Volynugol administration premises demanding the CEO to be fired. “In addition to the clearing of the salary debts they also insist on firing the acting CEO of the…
Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, has reported a raider attempt to seize the Novovolynskaya mine No. 9. “Early on September 10 some 30 unidentified people arrived at the enterprise with the acting CEO of the state enterprise Volynugol Andrei Pilipyuk. They refused to identify themselves, they all wore black…
The state enterprise Volynugol and its structural divisions owe considerable amounts to the Pension Fund. As of August 1 the combined debt of Volynugol and its divisions reached 116.7 million UAH, including the debt on preferential pensions of 113.24 million UAH. The Novovolynsky city council has sent a letter to the minister of energy and…
During the construction of a mine in Lviv region, the prosecutors have uncovered embezzlement of funds. The Chervonograd prosecutor’s office has found out that during the mine construction, the volume of the works was illegally increased by 400 thousand UAH. The mine belongs to the state enterprise Volynugol. (Ukrainian metal)
