KOSOVO MINING PIECE
September 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNONCE again significant recovery of coal mining in Kosovo has been frustrated by unforeseen natural disasters - in this case the collapse last November of the coal face in the Bardh coal mine after very heavy rain, causing serious damage to equipment. Prior to that, according to Ian Brown, energy programme manager at the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) - the European Union's (EU) project for economic recovery in the Balkans - the investments funded by the EU had achieved "major increases in coal extraction and supply rates."Comparing 2002 to ...
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