Smoke and mirrors: why the climate promises of the Southern Gas Corridor don’t add up
Publication | 30 January, 2018The 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.
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Guest post: One beast with many heads – a hydropower hydra in the Balkans
Blog entry | 21 December, 2017A visit to six mountain rivers and nine small dams in Macedonia exposed similar problems with many of them.
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European-financed small hydropower plants damaging pristine Balkan landscapes – study
Press release | 20 December, 2017Eight hydropower projects in Albania, Croatia and Macedonia financed with European public money have damaged biodiversity and are in urgent need of increased monitoring and restoration measures.
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Broken rivers. The impacts of European-financed small hydropower plants on pristine Balkan landscapes
Publication | 19 December, 2017Eight hydropower projects in Albania, Croatia and Macedonia financed with European public money have damaged biodiversity and are in urgent need of increased monitoring and restoration measures.
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EUR 1.5 billion public loan for controversial pipeline withheld
Press release | 12 December, 2017Today, at a board meeting in Luxembourg the European Investment Bank has decided, for now, to postpone loaning 1.5 billion euros to the controversial Trans-Adriatic Pipeline.
Read moreGas lending at the European Investment Bank 2013-2016
Publication | 12 December, 2017Since the European Investment Bank (EIB) revised its energy lending criteria in 2012, it has limited its support for fossil fuels projects in the energy sector and eliminated the most polluting power plants from its portfolio. However, the bank’s contr
Read moreSix reasons for not financing the Nenskra hydropower project in Georgia
Publication | 5 December, 2017This briefing outlines the main issues with the Nenskra hydropower project shortly before both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank will decide on financing the project.
Read moreNenskra HPP poses possible threat to Georgian biodiversity hot spot
Publication | 4 December, 2017In January 2016 the Georgian government decided to exclude from the Bern Convention’s candidate Emerald Site “Svaneti 1” all territories that are part of the valleys of the Nenskra and Nakra rivers which are relevant for the construction of the Nenksra
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Price tag of Georgia’s Nenskra dam goes through the roof
Blog entry | 4 December, 2017New information reveals the disproportionate price that Georgia’s government guarantees to pay for electricity from the Nenskra dam. The increasingly unfavourable economics strengthen calls to finally make the project’s contract publicly available.
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Between TAP and a hard place – Albanian farmers receive peanuts after losing land and livelihoods to gas pipeline
Blog entry | 30 November, 2017Interviews in Albania revealed a barrage of complaints about how the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline has been treating farmers affected by the mega gas project that may soon receive a record loan from the European Investment Bank.
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