News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]


Fukushima is state owned and operated by a consortium who are not as far as I know criticised for unfettered capitalism. Be careful of your comments coming back and biting you all over.

Anyway, what's this got to do with hydrocarbons?

And do you understand the difference between deep and shallow fracking or know how long Poland (and the UK) have been doing it already?

Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]


Yes. I'm always half-amused, half-irritated when I see adverts on the bus in Poland for institutions that admit almost anyone and give 'degrees' that are near impossible to fail in subjects like Diplomacy and International Relations.

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]

Do you really think Fukushima is something to do with hydrocarbons in general and fracking in particular?

Study / MBA in Poland for 40+ and older? [62]


That's one of the funniest things I've ever read here!


And this is also a barefaced lie!!

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]


Read the above - the bit about shallow and deep reservoirs.


They're fracking there since when?


For a change you've got something 25% right. Gay - yes and very happy about it, single - no, 'hops' from country to country - no, in search of money - I get a salary as do all workers, in search of men - no.


Wrong on all three counts, which I suppose is par for the course for you


Back tracking how?


Considering there's barely a truthful statement in your entire post and you seem to think that Fukushima is something to do with hydrocarbon extraction, it seems you were looking in a mirror when you wrote that.

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]


What's so wrong with that? And I suspect Warszawski's hands are immaculately clean.


This much I agree with. Those people just don't like other people making money. The industrial North has provided the UK with a very good living for centuries - now it's the Home Counties' turn to get the industrial landscape.


Hiding? Now where might someone go for a fortnight in August? Answers on a postcard...


If some online doylan accuses me of a crime connected with my work and it remains on the forum, they'll find it's a promise not a threat.


I just bought some in Halliburton too.

Travel / Zakopane in December (is it hotel-friendly?) [19]


And people are used to that.


Why not? I do.

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]


I did actually know that ;-)

The point I'm making, however, is that they've been doing it for ages in the offshore rigs they have in the Baltic Sea.

The danger is not fracking offshore reservoirs or even fracking deep onshore reservoirs - it is when (as happened in the US) they frack reservoirs closer to the surface.

Travel / Zakopane in December (is it hotel-friendly?) [19]

One thing I always notice is when people just clear in front of their own house and never their neighbours'. Even if the neighbour is elderly or away from home.

Ayn Rand would be proud of such people.

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]

The danger is the way it's licensed. If the licensed only permitted extraction from deep reservoirs there's no real danger. The Gasland film was about extraction from shallower reservoirs.

After all, Poland fracks anyway at its few Baltic rigs, and the UK has been doing it for decades offshore.

The biggest problem is that the licence holders will take whatever is in their sector, regardless of how near the surface it is.

Law / Tax on income from the UAE. British passport, Polish permanent resident. [11]


Agreed.

The Centre of Interest comment from Harry is very important. The property you own plus the permanent residency (absolutely unneccesary by the way if you are a British citizen and frankly more trouble than it's worth) could possibly swing that against you in which case you should be very careful. You mentioned already that this money is savings, however the Urząd Skarbowy are unpredictable (interpretations of rules can vary wildly from branch to branch) and doubtless some of the money is recent income.

In your favour are the facts that the UAE and Poland do have a current double taxation agreement and that if you can establish that Poland isn't your "Centre of Interest" you can stay for up to 183 days per tax year without raising any income tax liability.

You would do very well to keep the money offshore, but as Warszawski and Harry etc say, GET PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

History / A potential war: Poland vs Lithuania. Who would win? [17]


A large one.

Law / Tax on income from the UAE. British passport, Polish permanent resident. [11]

That's sensible.

You should be OK and the Polish tax system is quite a generous one, however it's better not to put your head over the parapet.

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]

That's business for you.

The state will get the licensing money. however since fracking isn't labour-intensive and transporting the energy relatively straightforward, there isn't much benefit from upstream production for the locals unfortunate enough to have it near their homes.

USA, Canada / Culture Shock.. my Foreign Import's 90 days in US [7]


It can be excellent, though many people's day to day diet isn't especially healthy or appetising and processed foods are big in PL. Even the sausage is processed food and laden with nasties. Life expectancy lags behind much of Europe and there are very high levels of stomach cancer.

The fruit and veg are good and cheap though.

Life / Polish disco-polo music makes comeback in Poland [20]

Only John was very late. Though a minority of scholars believe him to be early, and his stuff about the word made flesh predates the historical Jesus anyway.

BTW, There were far more than four evangelists. The four you get in the current version of your holy book is what all the disparate and argumentative beardies could finally agree offended the fewest of them at the Council of Nicea in (I think) CE 324.

How this fits with provincial '90s karaoke music is anyone's guess...

Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]


Often that's exactly what it does. Aside from those who define themselves by who they are rather than who some of their relatives were.


That's just meaningless.

Love / How to find a Polish girl for marriage? [22]


2-3 wives?

Law / How do I arrange a Dowód Osobisty / ID card in Poland? [10]

The town hall is on Pl. Kolegiacki. The office that issues ID cards is on ul. Libelska.

Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]


Yes. It's a huge difference and there comes a time when a family who've emigrated need to decide whether they look to their past or their future.

Life / Hookah (shisha ) equipment and products in Poland [21]

Sometimes. I got into the habit in Sudan and used to go out for one several times a week in Qatar. I tend to do it rarely nowadays since shisha is even more carcinogenic than cigarettes. Nice once in a while.

BTW, it's quite fashionable in Poland, and a rash of shisha bars opened in Warsaw several years ago. I think the smoking ban put a stop to most of them though.

Life / Hookah (shisha ) equipment and products in Poland [21]

You could also use barbecue charcoals. They would work fine.

News / 100,000 new jobs for less qualified workers in Poland [13]


Zilch, except for making a lot of noise which might merit a few minute's local tv coverage. People wanted capitalism, now they've got it. A shame, but their story is far from unusual.

UK, Ireland / UK Polonia protesting v German TV series [65]


And now he's making a fool of himself by getting all worked up about something he disagrees with that's already been shown on TV here.

Life / Hookah (shisha ) equipment and products in Poland [21]

Berlin is a cheap and short train ride from Poznań. Shisha tobacco is very easy to get there, in Kreuzberg and Neukolln. Charcoal for shisha can be found at any church supplier (there are several in Poznań); the disks they use for church incense are the same as the ones available in the Middle East for domestic use and work fairly well in a shisha.

UK, Ireland / UK Polonia protesting v German TV series [65]

Sounds a loon, especially since the tv show has already been aired in several countries including PL. Evidently he wants to end up a laughing stock.

News / 100,000 new jobs for less qualified workers in Poland [13]

Complained bitterly probably, though I doubt there's much else they could do.

History / The Pogrom on Jews at Eishyshok (Ejszyszki) in Poland [68]


Exactly. Very unlike those who try to make an issue about things of which they know nothing.

Life / Polish natural remedies and homeopathey better than English [84]

Scary, isn't it. There are still people here who swear by stuff like Echinacea and Lecithin. And it isn't that long ago that Herbalife were peddling their wares in PL.

News / Polish police chief removes crosses [250]


There was a referendum. The people voted in favour of a secular state.