European-backed small HPPs damaging environment in Balkans

20 December 2017, SEE News

The CEE Bankwatch Network, a non-governmental organisation based in the Czech Republic, said on Wednesday that eight hydropower plant (HPP) projects in Albania, Croatia and Macedonia financed with European public money have damaged biodiversity and should carry out restoration measures.

The Ilovac HPP in Croatia, the Rapuni 1-2 and Ternove HPPs in Albania, and five plants in Macedonia – Brajcinska reka 1, Brajcinska reka 2, Tresonecka reka, Lipkovo and Tearce 97-99 – are affecting endemic and endangered species, and in some cases they have also hampered the local communities’ water use, CEE Bankwatch said, citing the results of a study.

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