Brown coal mining limits in North Bohemia name to Severní energetická in August 2013, it initiated a new marketing campaign featuring individuals and small groups of people wearing green T-shirts against a backgrounds of a power plant or an excavator accompanied with the slogan “Don’t pay for sun [or wind]. Choose Czech energy.” Greenpeace parodied this campaign by asking its supporters to “creatively modify” the Severní energetická posters by suggesting new slogans. The results included: “We’ll bulldoze your homes. Choose brown coal”, “Don’t pay for the sun, pay for a lunarscape”, and “Pay with your life. Choose Czech energy”. Prime Minister Petr Nečas resigned and his government
Environmental impact of the coal industry This is due to the relaxation of pressure and fracturing of the strata during mining activity, which gives rise to safety concerns for the coal miners if not managed properly. The buildup of pressure in the strata can lead to explosions during (or after) the mining process if prevention methods, such as "methane draining", are not taken. In 2008 James E. Hansen and Pushker Kharecha published a peer-reviewed scientific study analyzing the effect of a coal phase-out on atmospheric CO levels. Their baseline mitigation scenario was a phaseout of global coal emissions by 2050. Under the "Business as Usual" scenario,