There are various social impacts of this project. They include:

• Health related problems related to coal ash and air pollution caused by burning coal. See Coal Kills for details on negative health impacts caused by the construction and exploitation of the Elektrownia Pólnoc power plant

• The region will be locked in the old mode of energy production for the next 40-50 years and thus will not be able to shift into the RE-based society.

• Water pollution (especially mercury) resulting from sewage dumping from the plant into the Vistula river - passing through some major Polish cities before it reaches the Baltic Sea will lead to long-term health problems. There is serious risk of Poland not fulfilling the obligations of the Water Directive due to high concentration of mercury and other heavy metals in big rivers such as Vistula due to coal-based electricity generation.

• The surrounding fields will be affected both by air pollution and a pipeline that is supposed to run for 8,5 km from the construction site to the Vistula River and pass through a number of fertile, agriculture lands. Due to this reason, opposition to the project among local farmers is growing.

• Local residents have been denied access to information and to the administrative procedure of granting the building permit. The fertile lands that are under legal protection have been downgraded two categories and it has been pushing the local residents to sign papers that suggested it will be done on their own initiatives. Some of the local residents withdrew from the process later on as they have understood that they have been misled into signing documents they did not understand nor like.

• The Elektrownia Pólnoc power plant may emit up to 9,4 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Information has been consistently denied to the local community members opposing the power plant construction and a number of not accurate or misleading information has been provided by the investor such as for example claiming that all the legal procedures have ended and that the environmental NGOs don't express any concern about the project's environmental impact.

The investors claims that the power plant will help alleviate the high unemployment in the region while most of the local unemployed are women that have lower chances of benefiting from the project due to the employment and hiring structure of the project.

Burning coal is amongst the highest forms of pollution in energy production. Due to this, there are many environmental concerns attached to this project. Including:

• It causes significant changes to air quality through emissions of GHGs, impacts the climate of the region and the planet, and causes water pollution.
• The planned site is a Nature 2000 site Valley - PLH220033 and PLB040003 sites- and the body of water surrounding it will be affected due to run off and dumping. The Vistula river is becoming a sewage.
  
• Mercury produced in the process of coal burning has serious effects on water quality. The emissions from the plant affect both the fauna and the flora of the protected area.
• A list of environmental conditions to the investment specified by the Regional Environmental Protection Authority in Gdansk reveals how many elements of the ecosystem may be harmed by the power plant. The report is available here (however it is available only in Polish).
• There are also omissions in the EIA report and the negative effects on the above mentioned Natura 2000 sites are not ruled out. Not all the parts constituting a technological whole of the power plant construction have been taken into account and the melioration necessary to proceed with the investment process has been excluded from the EIA procedure. Impacts of the power plant construction and functioning on the nearby Natura 2000 PLH220031 have been completely omitted.

There have been attempts to bully the local farmers into signing a petition to the Ministry of Environment in which they would ask for lowering the class of their land. Some local residents also claim that they have been misinformed about the content of the conditional land sale agreement prepared by the investor.