Déchets publics, profits privés
March 5, 2020
Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, une des plus grandes décharges à ciel ouvert d’Europe empoisonne les sols et l’air de la banlieue de Belgrade. En septembre 2019, Suez, géant français de la gestion des déchets et de l’eau, a conclu un très gros contra
Legal challenge mounted against subsidies for Belgrade waste incinerator
March 2, 2020
Serbia’s Ne Davimo Beograd movement has submitted two complaints to the Energy Community Secretariat, challenging government decisions for the Suez-Itochu consortium’s 340,000 tonnes-per-year municipal waste incinerator in Belgrade (1).
Just can’t get enough judgements: Croatian export bank still firmly riding the waves of opacity
January 30, 2020
The Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) has recently started another court case against the decision of Croatia’s Information Commissioner before the High Administrative Court. In the contested decision, the Commissioner ordered HBOR to disclose information about its export credit projects to the environmental organization Green Istria. This court case adds to no fewer than 31 appeals that HBOR started against similar decisions by the Commissioner between 2015-2019. It lost all of them.
Blue Heart of Europe – hydropower is destroying environment for hardly any energy
January 29, 2020
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
Serbia finally moves to halt unfair advantage for small hydropower plants
January 22, 2020
Serbia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy last week finally announced that its Regulation governing incentive measures for renewable energy and cogeneration is no longer in force.
Outlook 2020 Georgia
January 21, 2020
Energy developments in Georgia last year saw Kakha Kaladze, the mayor of Tbilisi and an influential member of the ruling Georgian Dream party, throw his support behind the $1bn Nenskra HPP hydropower project, while rejecting accusations related to the
In Kenya, EU bank preventing forced evictions would be a Christmas miracle
December 20, 2019
The European Investment Bank and German development bank KfW are among the lenders supporting a 41 kilometre extension of the road from Mombasa towards Nairobi, one of the most important in Kenya. Over the last four years, the resettlement of those along the transport corridor has created severe problems for residents of Mombasa’s suburbs.
Georgia campaigners oppose hydro plans
December 9, 2019
Georgia is planning dozens of new hydroelectric power stations to boost the country’s energy capacity. Although 80 percent of the country’s electricity already comes from hydropower, the government wants more to meet future demand. But affected communi
Международна мисия ще провери на място правителствения проект за път през Кресна
December 6, 2019
Днес Постоянният комитет на Бернската конвенция е взел решение да засили наблюдението на случая на строителството на магистрала “Струма” през Кресненски пролом.
Nenskra: new players, new risks
December 4, 2019
More than a year after Salini Impregilo, a major construction company, mysteriously abandoned the Nenskra hydropower project before construction had even begun, new contractors are now said to have been hired to build Georgia’s biggest and most divisive hydropower project.
