Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project gets €1.5bn public loan
Climate Home News | February 6, 2018The European Investment Bank has approved a loan to the Southern Gas Corridor, in a move environmentalists described as a “historic mistake” Source: Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project gets €1.5bn public loan
Is the ‘Southern Corridor’ in danger of delays? – EIB’s crucial decision, today
Independent Balkan News Agency | February 6, 2018In an interview with the specialised webpage NGW which he gave on the sidelines of theEuropean Gas Confere Source: Is the ‘Southern Corridor’ in danger of delays? – EIB’s crucial decision, today
TAP to Start up Early 2020: CEO
Natural Gas World | February 5, 2018The TransAdriatic Pipeline (TAP) project is now on schedule for early 2020 start up, according to its president Walter Peeraer, in an interview with NGW that covered capacity expansion and its operating regime. Source: TAP to Start up Early 2020: CEO
European Bank Gives Go-Ahead to Controversial Georgian Dam
Eurasianet | February 5, 2018A new dam will provide eight percent of Georgia’s electricity, but locals worry about its effect on their land. Now the project has European funding. Source: European Bank Gives Go-Ahead to Controversial Georgian Dam
Pipelinegas so schädlich wie Kohle
Klimaretter | February 3, 2018Erdgas gilt als relativ klimafreundlich und Brücke ins postfossile Zeitalter. Doch Förderung und Transport könnten klimaschädlicher sein als die Kohleverbrennung Source: Pipelinegas so schädlich wie Kohle
Energiegewinnung in Tschernobyl: Strahlender Solarpark
taz | January 28, 2018Neben der AKW-Ruine in Tschernobyl entsteht mit deutscher Hilfe ein erster Solarpark. Weitere sollen folgen. Das gefällt nicht allen. Source: Energiegewinnung in Tschernobyl: Strahlender Solarpark
Bankwatch warnt vor Umweltschäden durch Projekte der Kleinwasserkraft im Westbalkan
EUWID Wasser und Abwasser | January 11, 2018Acht Wasserkraftprojekte im Westbalkan, die mit europäischen Mitteln finanziert werden, schädigen die biologische Vielfalt. Das hat die NGO CEE Bankwatch Network festgestellt. Source: Bankwatch warnt vor Umweltschäden durch Projekte der Kleinwasserkraf
Smog Chokes the Balkans
Transitions Online | January 9, 2018As heating is turned up to beat the mid-winter cold, the Balkan peninsula is grappling with a well-known foe: suffocating levels of air pollution. Source: Smog Chokes the Balkans
Bankwatch: Montenegro Should Drop Construction of Pljevlja 2 TPP
Energetika.net | January 8, 2018Now that the Montenegrin government and the power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) have officially announced the termination of the contract with the Czech company Škoda Praha for construction of the second unit of the Pljevlja thermal power pl
European-backed small HPPs damaging environment in Balkans
SEE News | December 20, 2017The 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 sho
