The long term blot on the European landscape that is Polish energy policy, may have been dealt a body blow this week, as French banking giant BNP Paribas said it would finally cut its financial connections with electricity producers there, especially those strong on coal production. In particular it plans to pull banking facilities from Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), the lead energy supplier there. PGE in the past has said very clearly that it intends to spend well over 80% of its investment on new coal plants and coal plant modernization and just 1% on renewable energy. The French bank has long been criticized for saying several years ago that it would do this, and not following through, but it…