First Balkans private power plant boosts coal dependence
20 September 2016 | Reuters
* Chinese-built plant is first privately built in Western Balkans * Plant increases regional dependent on dirty coal * Chinese investment playing growing role in region’s power By Maja Zuvela STANARI, Bosnia, Sept 20 The Balkan region’s first privately-funded power plant came online on Tuesday, increasing the region’s dependency on coal-fired power stations even as environmental concerns are driving them to the brink of the extinction elsewhere in Europe.
Southern Gas Corridor under more pressure
20 September 2016 | Interfax Global Energy
Russia’s plan to revive the Turkish Stream pipeline and the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) project could put future projects along the proposed Southern Gas Corridor under even more pressure. Gulmira Rzayeva, senior research fellow at Azerba
Juncker’s extended investment plan is ‘greenwash’, say campaigners
15 September 2016 | ENDS Europe
Environmental NGOs have claimed the European Commission’s investment plans will “open the door” to more fossil fuel projects […]
Pobuna za Bunu
14 September 2016 | H-Alter
“Ja ne razumijem kako neki ljudi vole samo sjedit po kafićima. Ja to ne mogu, meni je draže ovdje sjedit”, govori Aida dok promatra smaragdno zelenu boju rijeke Bune. Nakon što teče pod zemljom više od 19 kilometara, ova rijeka izvire na površinu 12 ki
Saporoschje bleibt weiter am Netz
14 September 2016 | taz
Die Laufzeit des größten Atomkraftwerks in Europa wurde verlängert. Doch die Kritiker zweifeln an der Sicherheit des Reaktors. KIEW taz | Europas größtes Atomkraftwerk, das AKW Saporoschje in der Ostukraine, geht in die Laufzeitverlängerung. Am Dienstag beschloss die ukrainische Atombehörde einstimmig, die Laufzeit des ersten der insgesamt sechs Reaktoren um weitere neun Jahre zu verlängern. Er ist seit Dezember 1985 am Netz und hat seine ursprünglich auf 30 Jahre ausgelegte Lebenszeit erreicht.
Gas pipelines run over EU energy policy
14 September 2016 | Climate News Network
Critics claim €3bn European funding for the Southern Gas Corridor energy project would undermine EU climate change targets and gloss over human rights abuses. LONDON, 14 September, 2016 – Civil society campaigners have accused the European Union of pouring unprecedented amounts of state aid into a huge energy project that runs counter to its own climate change objectives.
