ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the operation of environmental regulatory processes in post-communist Poland. It focuses on the 'economic' approach to regulation, with regulatory interventions viewed in terms of supplies of, and demands for, regulation. The chapter provides some of the background to the construction of the power station. The power station provides an excellent example of a major investment project that was begun in the period of communist rule, but remained unfinished when the process of systemic transformation began. The chapter discusses the different interest groups involved and examines the actions and influence of the groups with reference to some of the key environmental issues relating to the power station. The operation of the power station offers opportunities for a reduction in low stack emissions in the area with a lessening of their considerable impact on the level of local pollutant concentrations. The chapter outlines the important factors in determining the current outcome and analyses some key inefficiencies associated with it.
