Poland’s ‘dirty’ Eastern block shows some cracks
28 October 2014 | EurActiv
Horse trading intensifies as the eleventh hour approaches for the EU to decide on its 2030 climate and energy policy. And while Poland has led an Eastern coalition to resist ambitious targets for Europe, Ondrej Pasek writes that some may be only reluctantly following Warsaw.
Melting glaciers add to woes at Kumtor
28 October 2014 | Asia Times Online
Kumtor mine is the largest open pit gold deposit in Central Asia, whose majority shareholder since 2004 has been Centerra Gold, a Canadian mining company. The mine sits at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, in the Tien Shan mountain range and among some of Kyrgyzstan’s – and the region’s – most important glaciers. These feed into the Naryn (Kyrgyzstan) and Syrdarya (Uzbekistan) rivers. Kumtor’s main gold-bearing ore lies under glaciers adjacent to Kyrgyzstan’s Sarychat-Ertash state reserve.
Bankwatch warns of corruption at Plomin C
15 October 2014 | Energetika
over 10 hits in national and regional media, including croatian evening news
False Data in EIA for New Bosnian and Herzegovinian Power Plant Ugljevik III
8 October 2014 | Energetika
http://www.energetika.net/eu/novice/clanki/false-data-in-eia-for-new-bosnian-and-herzegovinian-power-pl?utm_source=en.news
EU energy plans in limbo as MEPs grill proposed commission
8 October 2014 | RTCC
Former Slovenian prime minister Alenka Bratusek branded “vague and evasive” in EU Parliament interrogation
Croatia: Marubeni Japan and Alstom’s corruption records cast new doubts on Croatian coal project, warns new analysis
2 October 2014 | Serbia Energy
Japan’s Marubeni Corporation and France’s Alstom – who have together been chosen as the preferred bidding consortium for the Plomin C* coal power plant project in Croatia – have a poor integrity record including several convictions for corruption offences which should raise alarm bells and increase vigilance among the Croatian public and potential financiers of the project, according to a new paper by CEE Bankwatch Network, published today.
