Hatching discontent in Ukraine
Blog entry | 16 March, 2017In Ukraine, big agriculture uses unscrupulous methods to manufacture consensus for expansion and marginalise local communities – often with the support of international donors.
Read moreAzerbaijan suspended from the EITI – a Bankwatch and Counter Balance statement
Press release | 10 March, 2017A decision to suspend Azerbaijan’s membership in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) adopted yesterday (Mar 9) is the latest reminder for international financial institutes to avoid supporting the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project.
Read moreTackling gender inequality at the EU’s flagship energy project
Blog entry | 7 March, 2017It is fitting that we use today to reflect on the European Investment Bank’s new Strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment: 8 March is International Women’s Day. Adopted at the beginning of this year, the strategy complements the ban
Read more[Campaign update] Ukrainian nuclear power consultations could be Potemkin villages
Blog entry | 3 March, 2017On Sunday, March 5, nuclear reactor number 3 at the Zaporizhia power plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear power station, will reach the end of its 30 year lifespan. Kiev wants to keep this Soviet-era nuclear unit going for at least ten more years
Read moreSmall is (not always) beautiful: small hydro development in the Western Balkans
Blog entry | 28 February, 2017It has long been recognised that the human and environmental costs of large dams are extremely high. But what about small ones? Here we unpack some of the myths being spread about small hydropower in the Balkans.
Read more[Campaign update] Protestors take to Kyiv to demand action from agribusiness giant encroaching on their lands
Blog entry | 24 February, 2017On 22 February, more than 70 activists and residents from the Chyhyryn region south of Kyiv protested outside the headquarters of Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), the Ukrainian agribusiness conglomerate owned by one of the country’s richest billionaires.
Read moreQuestion marks abound over EU-Azerbaijan gas tango
Blog entry | 23 February, 2017Ministers, ambassadors and envoys from at least 15 countries, including Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s Vice President for the Energy Union, are gathered today in the Azerbaijani capital to discuss the progress on the Southern Gas Corridor, t
Read moreUkraine’s addiction to nuclear energy poses a decades-long threat to Europe
Blog entry | 2 February, 2017Despite an urgent need to rebuild and reshape its highly inefficient and outdated energy sector, Ukraine has recently presented a draft of its new energy strategy that looks more like of the same. While the strategy makes mention of modern renewable en
Read moreRevealed: the EU’s flagship energy project is built by companies with a legacy of corruption
Press release | 14 December, 2016No less than 15 firms contracted to build the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), the two main sections of the so-called Southern Gas Corridor, have been implicated in various forms of corruption in the past, according to a CEE Bankwatch Network report published today.
Read more‘Southern Graft Corridor’ or the shady history of companies involved in Europe’s pet energy project
Blog entry | 13 December, 2016A new Bankwatch study reveals a worrying track record of criminal and corrupt activities among the companies that are building Europe’s flagship gas pipeline project, the Southern Gas Corridor.
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