Updates on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Photo report inspecting construction on the main pipeline for the Sakhalin II project in the Dolinsky District of the Sakhalin Region

EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism review – Stakeholder Consultation and Disclosure Plan

Vlora citizens demand a referendum and a yachting harbour instead of an oil terminal and pipeline

The Civic Alliance for the Protection of the Vlora Bay, a local Albanian initiative group, continued on Sunday to press for a referendum on an oil deposit and a thermo-power plant being constructed north of the town of Vlora on Albania’s Adriatic coast.

EBRD financed Tbilisi Public Transport Project

Tbilisi, with a population of more than 1.5 million people, manifests all the signs of environmental stress – poor air quality, excessive noise, traffic congestion, loss of green areas and degradation of historical buildings and monuments. Road transport is responsible for an increasing share of total air emissions, their contribution rising from some 70 percent in 1991 to about 91 percent in 2005. In July 2005, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lent EUR 3 million to the "Municipal Auto Transport Company Ltd".

NGO letter of concern regarding priority projects approved by the Ministerial Council of the South East Europe Energy Community Treaty

On March 12, 2008 the SEE Energy Community responded to this letter. Download the response here (as pdf). On June 3, 2008 SEEDW issued a response to the above. Download it as pdf here.

NGO letter of concern regarding priority projects approved by the Ministerial Council of the South East Europe Energy Community Treaty

NGO letter to the EBRD regarding financing of the Bautino II project and infrastructures related to offshore oil extraction on the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan

Letter to the EBRD EDs regarding the Tbilisi Water Supply Improvement Project

On March 31, 2008 EBRD infrastructure department responded to our letter. Download the response as pdf here.

NGO declaration on the murder of Russian civil activist Dmitry Troyan

On February 24, 2008 EBRD responded to our declaration with the following letter: Dear NGO representatives, Thank you for your email of 4 February sent to me and copied to several EBRD members of staff and management expressing your concerns regarding the tragic death of Dmitry Troyan. I am responding on the Bank’s behalf.

Letter to the EBRD, EIB and EC regarding the Czech Operational Programme Transport for 2007-2013