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Home > Blog entry > Serbian energy sector needs overhaul

Serbian energy sector needs overhaul

The news portal Deutsche Welle has visited the Kolubara lignite mine in Serbia and produced a short clip about the difficulties faced by the Serbian energy sector. Our Serbian colleague Nikola Perusic speaks in the video about the terrible landslide that happened in May 2013.

,   |  10 September 2014


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The news portal Deutsche Welle has visited the Kolubara lignite mine in Serbia and produced a short clip about the difficulties faced by the Serbian energy sector.

Our Serbian colleague Nikola Perusic speaks in the video about the terrible landslide that happened in May 2013.

See the video here

The clip doesn’t mention this year’s floods – which hit communities living next to the Kolubara mine particularly hard and dealt yet another blow to Serbia’s energy sector. But as Bankwatch pointed out in July, the floods are not a reason to fall back to lignite as a cheap fuel but rather exemplify the vulnerabilities that come with the hyper-centralisation and over-reliance on coal in Serbia’s energy sector.

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Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate | Social & economic impacts

Location: Serbia

Project: Kolubara lignite mine, Serbia

Tags: Deutsche Welle | Kolubara | Serbia | energy | floods | landslide | lignite | video

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