The great gas lock-in – industry lobbying is behind the EU push for new gas infrastructure
Blog entry | 31 October, 2017A new report from Corporate Europe Observatory shows why the fire-power of the gas industry makes it a powerful and effective lobbying force in Brussels and national capitals. Meanwhile, public interest groups have a fraction of the resources and access.
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Nenskra HPP: the concerns of worried locals fall on deaf ears of project developers
Blog entry | 12 October, 2017In an interview, a teacher from Chuberi in the Svaneti mountains gave us an impression of how the project developers of the planned Nenskra dam engage with locals.
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Fossil fuel subsidies by European public banks are underwriting climate change
Blog entry | 28 September, 2017European public banks who have repeatedly voiced their commitment to tackling the climate crisis and ‘greening’ their investment portfolios continue to dole out cash for fossil fuels extraction, distribution and consumption.
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Georgia’s highlanders against hydropower
Blog entry | 20 September, 2017As the Georgian government moves ahead with its plans for increasing the country’s hydropower capacity, local communities are being sidelined in the process of compensation payments.
Read moreHuman rights concerns over EIB loan to TANAP
Publication | 12 September, 2017The European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently considering financing the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which will run through Turkey transporting natural gas extracted in Azerbaijan. A group of 24 NGOs are writing to express our concer
Read moreWhy the EIB should not finance TANAP
Publication | 12 September, 2017This briefing outlines and summarises key issues of concern for civil society organisations in relation to a potential loan by the EIB for the Trans-Anatolian gas Pipeline (TANAP) which is part of the Southern Gas Corridor.
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Systematic shortcomings will deprive people affected by Georgian dam of compensation
Blog entry | 11 September, 2017An assessment of livelihoods of people to be affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia is rigged with mistakes that will lead to significant losses for locals.
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Failing local communities – the Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for the Nenskra dam
Publication | 11 September, 2017The Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for people to be affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia is rigged with mistakes that will lead to significant losses for locals.
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Azerbaijan’s Laundromat scandal raises concerns over the EU’s growing business ties with the authoritarian regime
Press release | 6 September, 2017Revelations about the Azerbaijani Laundromat corruption scheme raise serious concerns over the EU’s intensifying relationship with the government in Baku and its readiness to turn a blind eye to the country’s human rights abuses and offer loans of millions of euros to a massive gas infrastructure project that would fill the pockets of the Azerbaijani corrupted elite.
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The true colours of Svaneti – A festival in the stunning Georgian mountains
Blog entry | 30 August, 2017Despite the remote location, the culture festival We Are Svaneti brought together people from three continents and helped young Svans to become aware of their communities’ unique traditions.
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