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Blue Heart of Europe – hydropower is destroying environment for hardly any energy

29 January 2020, Balkan Green Energy News

Rivers are the source of life and also the livelihoods of surrounding communities. Following an almost one-year standoff in nearby Fojnica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, residents of the Kruščica village decided in 2017 to defend the river of the same name with their bodies. The resistance started when machines rolled in to build two small hydropower plants. The fight lasted for five hundred days. Source : Blue Heart of Europe – hydropower is destroying environment for hardly any energy

Theme: hydropower plants

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tags: communities | hydro power | protests | rivers

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