Updates on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Complaint to the EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism regarding the Vlora Thermal Power project

Green Istria comments on the draft EBRD Croatian Country Strategy

Green Action comments on the draft EBRD Croatian Country Strategy

Joint letter to the EBRD Environmental department from Ukrainian NGOs regarding flawed public hearings on a transmission line project

Letter to EC representatives on breaches of law in Zagreb incinerator EIA approval

On November 24, 2006 Francois Delcuellerie, EC Desk Officer for Croatia answered to this letter. Download the response as pdf here. On September 3, 2007 Marijan Galovic of Green Action sent update to the originall letter. Download it as pdf here. On January 28, 2008 Croatian Ministry of Environment responded to the above. Download the letter as pdf here.

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In this issue: Race against time to salvage EU funding for sustainable energy in the new member states * Bulgaria’s nuclear dowry * Customer complaints hit EIB shopping centre loan in Hungary * Hot air could become hotter in Ukraine * EBRD Environmental Policy Review is rolling * Short cuts over houses required for more growth in Slovakia * Toxic dump in a marine reserve? * World Bank Group’s renewable energy numbers exposed * NGO energy report * EBRD pigs to fly again?

Boom Time Blues: Big oil’s gender impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin

This new study, based on a field research in April 2006 by Bankwatch and Gender Action, examines the gender impacts of the BTC pipeline project in Azerbaijan and Georgia, and the Sakhalin II oil and gas project on Sakhalin Island.

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In this issue: Cohesion or Collision? EU funding and biodiversity * Shell’s Sakhalin project no friend of people or nature * People’s right to know not fully reflected in EIB’s new plans to show * Will the neighbouring countries’ biodiversity be bulldozed by TEN-T extension? * EIB 1996-2006; Evolution of an invisible giant * New Citizen’s Guide for better use of internationally recognised complaint mechanisms * Saaremaa bridge- a crazy Estonian dream * EU waste strategy and public funds must not go up in smoke

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In this issue: Forging the future, without faking it * Prostitution, trafficking, and STDs on the rise in EBRD oil projects * The EBRD’s PIP show * Azerbaijan’s oil boom showing troubling signs * Georgia’s economic situation less than rosy * New energy targets don’t tell the whole story * EBRD’s kiss and tell reinvents transition * The memory hole * New Zagreb waste strategy fails to justify incineration

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In this issue: Sakhalin fishermen’s struggle for justice * Can the EIB deliver on development? * The memory hole * Scraping the bottom of the end-of-pipe barrel * Social issues SOS from EBRD Environmental Department * Time to wake up from South-East Europe’s pipeline dreams * Nukes and cronies in the Balkans * Two or three Americans: Wolfowitz and his Republican appointees * World Bank helping to tarnish jewels of Polish nature * EIB in the South. In whose interest? * We will not be moved * EU funds in central and eastern Europe: cohesion or collision?