Petition handed to EBRD calling on IFIs to drop “destructive hydropower in the Balkans”
Balkan Green Energy News | June 26, 2018Representatives from the Save the Blue Heart of Europe campaign to save the continent’s last undammed rivers have handed in a petition endorsed globally by more than 120,000 people, calling on international development banks to rein in financial suppor
A new campaign aims to save the last wild rivers of Europe
Lonely Planet | June 26, 2018Protecting the last “wild rivers” of Europe is the aim of a new campaign from outdoor clothing company Patagonia, along with NGOs and locals. Source: A new campaign aims to save the last wild rivers of Europe
Blue Heart und die tapferen Frauen von Kruščica
HuffPost Deutschland | June 25, 2018“Es ist eine Verschwendung von Geld und eine moralische Farce, dass einige der größten Finanzinstitutionen der Welt diese veraltete und ausbeuterische Technologie unterstützen.” Source: Blue Heart und die tapferen Frauen von Kruščica
120,000 sign petition to save one of Europe’s last unspoiled corners
The Telegraph | June 22, 2018More than 120,000 people have signed a petition calling for one of the last true wildernesses in Europe to be protected from hydroelectric dams. Home to the only remaining undammed rivers on the Continent, the so-called Blue Heart of Europe is an area
Hidroelektrane prijete rijekama na Balkanu?
Radio Slobodna Evropa | June 22, 2018Peticijom je zatraženo da se zaustavi investiranje u hidroelektrane na Balkanu. Source: Hidroelektrane prijete rijekama na Balkanu?
In 120 mila per salvare i fiumi dei Balcani dalle dighe
Il Piccolo Balcani | June 22, 2018Alla Bers una petizione che chiede di bloccare i fondi per la costruzione di dighe e centrali idroelettriche nel cuore blu dell’Europa: 2800 gli impianti progettati Source: In 120 mila per salvare i fiumi dei Balcani dalle dighe
International nonprofits welcome World Bank’s shift towards green energy in Kosovo
Prishtina Insight | June 21, 2018A group of international and Kosovo-based NGOs have expressed support for the World Bank’s shift towards a more ‘comprehensive approach to energy sector development’ in Kosovo. Source: International nonprofits welcome World Bank’s shift towards green e
Hydropower threatens Balkan rivers, campaigners say
European Scientist | June 17, 2018Over the next few years, 3,000 hydropower plants could be built in the Balkan region. Environmentalists say the plans threaten rivers from Slovenia to Albania, considered to be some of the last wild rivers in Europe. Source: Hydropower threatens Balkan
Zaključavanje u ugljen, zaključavanje u prošlost
H-Alter | June 12, 2018Dok Kina ubrzano radi na dekarbonizaciji svoje ekonomije, kineske tvrtke i banke grade ili financiraju projekte termoelektrana na ugljen na Balkanu. U BiH je nedavno tako sagrađena termoelektrana Stanari, koja je u cijelosti dopremljena iz Kine, a Blok
The ‘deconstruction’ of the most ambitious project of the EU, the ‘Southern Gas Corridor’
Independent Balkan News Agency | June 12, 2018There is nothing that will change except from the supplier country since instead of Russia Europe will now Source: The ‘deconstruction’ of the most ambitious project of the EU, the ‘Southern Gas Corridor’