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Home > Bankwatch in the media > Series of damaging hydropower plants on the Iskar river shows why the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive needs to be tightened

Series of damaging hydropower plants on the Iskar river shows why the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive needs to be tightened

1 December 2021, Serbia Energy

More than half of European rivers are on red alert – failing to reach good health as required until 2015 by the Water Framework Directive. …

Source: Series of damaging hydropower plants on the Iskar river shows why the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive needs to be tightened

 

Location: Serbia

Project: Destructive hydropower in southeast Europe

Tags: biodiversity | hydropower

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