Kamerovo journalist Natalya Zubkova chose the office of the German coal company Unifer: they refused responsibility for cooperation with Russia The reason for the shift at the Unifer office in Dusseldorf was an event in 2019: then, in September, representatives of the company visited the city of Kemerovo, Kislavsk, where Zubkova lived and worked, being the editor-in-chief of the Kislevsk news portal. The visit took place within the framework of the Better Coal European Association, which unites suppliers and buyers of coal to improve the environmental and social standards of its production. In a 2020 post about the visit on its website, Unifer admitted that “even after a very short stay there, it was clear how close the mining operations are to homes. Even more revealing was the visit to the village of Chubashka, where local residents have been fighting for years against several local mining companies, whose methods in building relationships with local communities seem to be extremely poor." However, now, as Zubkova discovered, this publication has been removed from the company's website and remains only in the Internet Archive. "It was in the same year," says Zubkova, "when the residents of Kislavsk appealed to the Prime Minister of Canada with a request for resettlement (the action was organized by a journalist - editor). We tried to draw attention to the conditions in which we lived. Company representatives arrived and saw the city. They didn't talk to me. After this campaign, Unifer continued to purchase Russian coal. In its report, the company announced the cessation of such purchases in August 2022. So my question is directed to a specific buyer who has seen the impacts of mining and used a better coal system to assess supply risks." Moreover, "in November 2017, a better coal appraiser visited the Listvyazhnaya mine," the journalist continues. In May 2018, an improvement plan was agreed upon for the SDS-Ugol group. On November 25, 2021, a disaster occurred in the mine, killing 51 people.

Kamerovo journalist Natalya Zubkova chose the office of the German coal company Unifer: they refused responsibility for cooperation with Russia The reason for the shift at the Unifer office in Dusseldorf was an event in 2019: then, in September, representatives of the company visited the city of Kemerovo, Kislavsk, where Zubkova lived and worked, being the editor-in-chief of the Kislevsk news portal. The visit took place within the framework of the Better Coal European Association, which unites suppliers and buyers of coal to improve the environmental and social standards of its production. In a 2020 post about the visit on its website, Unifer admitted that “even after a very short stay there, it was clear how close the mining operations are to homes. Even more revealing was the visit to the village of Chubashka, where local residents have been fighting for years against several local mining companies, whose methods in building relationships with local communities seem to be extremely poor." However, now, as Zubkova discovered, this publication has been removed from the company's website and remains only in the Internet Archive. "It was in the same year," says Zubkova, "when the residents of Kislavsk appealed to the Prime Minister of Canada with a request for resettlement (the action was organized by a journalist - editor). We tried to draw attention to the conditions in which we lived. Company representatives arrived and saw the city. They didn't talk to me. After this campaign, Unifer continued to purchase Russian coal. In its report, the company announced the cessation of such purchases in August 2022. So my question is directed to a specific buyer who has seen the impacts of mining and used a better coal system to assess supply risks." Moreover, "in November 2017, a better coal appraiser visited the Listvyazhnaya mine," the journalist continues. In May 2018, an improvement plan was agreed upon for the SDS-Ugol group. On November 25, 2021, a disaster occurred in the mine, killing 51 people.