Several of Enea Group's operations are responsible for severe adverse impacts on the health of local people:

• Enea's Kozienice coal power plant was responsible for an estimated 650 premature deaths, 320 cases of bronchitis and 186,500 days of absence from work in 2013, and health costs due to pollution caused by this plant amounted to an estimated EUR 920 million in 2013 (Europe's Dark Cloud, 2016). Greenpeace estimates that the new unit at Kozienice (planned capacity of 1,000 MW) will result in an estimated additional 72 premature deaths and 16,352 days off work annually (Greenpeace Poland, 2013);
• the pollution effects of Enea's Polaniec coal power plant result in an estimated 178 premature deaths each year (Lifting Europe's Dark Cloud, 2016);
• the planned Ostrołęka C coal power plant will be, over its projected lifetime of 40 years, responsible for an estimated 900 to 2,000 premature deaths, 280 to 620 cases of chronic bronchitis in adults, 1,300 to 3,000 cases of bronchitis in children, between 190,000 to 420,000 days of sick leave and 100,000 asthma attacks in children (estimated statistics taken from the analysis 'Study on the health impact of the planned Ostrołęka C unit').

The production of energy by burning coal has strong adverse impacts on the environment and climate change. Enea's overall power production for 2015 resulted in the emission of 12 million tons of CO2, 32,350 tons of sulphur oxides and over 17,142 tons of nitrous oxides. These pollutants are responsible for having major adverse climate change impacts, as well as on the environment and public health.

Secondly, producing energy from coal requires heavy usage of water. In Poland, 70 per cent of water usage is used for the production of energy from coal, compared with the EU average of 13.7 per cent. The Kozienice plant for instance uses almost 100 m3 water per second for cooling its generators. In order to increase access to water for Kozienice Enea is planning to build a dam on the river Vistula. The interruption of the ecological continuity of the Vistula will have direct negative impacts on at least six Natura 2000 areas within the basin of the upper Vistula in which Atlantic salmon are protected.

The company's operations are also linked to several incidents of accidental pollution. In June 2014, a failure in the Kozienice power plant resulted in oil flowing into the Vistula river (wiadomosci.dziennik.pl). In the winter of 2016 thousands of dead fish were found near the water intake in the area of Enea's Polaniec power plant. Their deaths may have resulted from the hot water discharge by the plant (echodnia.eu).