TAP to Start up Early 2020: CEO
February 5, 2018
The TransAdriatic Pipeline (TAP) project is now on schedule for early 2020 start up, according to its president Walter Peeraer, in an interview with NGW that covered capacity expansion and its operating regime. Source: TAP to Start up Early 2020: CEO
European Bank Gives Go-Ahead to Controversial Georgian Dam
February 5, 2018
A new dam will provide eight percent of Georgia’s electricity, but locals worry about its effect on their land. Now the project has European funding. Source: European Bank Gives Go-Ahead to Controversial Georgian Dam
[Campaign update] More EBRD cash for Georgia dams should be cautionary tale for other development banks
February 5, 2018
The European Investment Bank is set to decide on the billion dollar Nenskra dam project during its board meeting today.
Pipelinegas so schädlich wie Kohle
February 3, 2018
Erdgas gilt als relativ klimafreundlich und Brücke ins postfossile Zeitalter. Doch Förderung und Transport könnten klimaschädlicher sein als die Kohleverbrennung Source: Pipelinegas so schädlich wie Kohle
Smoke and mirrors: why the climate promises of the Southern Gas Corridor don’t add up
January 30, 2018
The aim of this study is to quantify the fugitive emissions produced along the fossil gas supply chain of the Southern Gas Corridor, focusing on extraction and transmission operations.
New study shutters EU claims on climate benefits from flagship energy project
January 30, 2018
The controversial Southern Gas Corridor, the EU’s flagship energy project, could be as emissions-intensive as coal power or even more, a new study reveals.
Energiegewinnung in Tschernobyl: Strahlender Solarpark
January 28, 2018
Neben der AKW-Ruine in Tschernobyl entsteht mit deutscher Hilfe ein erster Solarpark. Weitere sollen folgen. Das gefällt nicht allen. Source: Energiegewinnung in Tschernobyl: Strahlender Solarpark
AIIB financial intermediaries
January 19, 2018
In 2017, the AIIB has invested in three financial institutions – the Indonesia Regional Infrastructure Development Fund, the India Infrastructure Fund, and the Emerging Asia Fund – and that further institutionss are on the proposed projects list, inclu
Comments on the Nenskra supplementary environmental and social studies
January 15, 2018
The revised supplementary studies for the Nenskra project fail to properly perform a cost/benefit analysis. It lacks an assessment of the energy efficiency alternatives, the environmental externalities, the opportunity costs and even an economic inte
Bankwatch warnt vor Umweltschäden durch Projekte der Kleinwasserkraft im Westbalkan
January 11, 2018
Acht Wasserkraftprojekte im Westbalkan, die mit europäischen Mitteln finanziert werden, schädigen die biologische Vielfalt. Das hat die NGO CEE Bankwatch Network festgestellt. Source: Bankwatch warnt vor Umweltschäden durch Projekte der Kleinwasserkraf