Planned Gacko II lignite plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina likely to make losses, shows new analysis
April 12, 2018
Our colleagues from the Center for Environment from Banja Luka have today published a new analysis of the feasibility study for the planned Gacko II lignite power plant in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which shows that the new plant is likely to be unprofitable.
BiH’s Ugljevik 3 TPP Under Examination Again
March 23, 2018
The permit for construction of the 600 MW Ugljevik 3 thermal power plant (TPP) in Republika Srpska is now also under examination by the Espoo Convention Implementation Committee due to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) failure to notify neighbouring count
Five decades breathing coal and losing years of life in Bosnia
February 24, 2018
Os moradores de Tuzla, no nordeste da Bósnia-Herzegóvina, vivem em média três anos menos que seus compatriotas, já que convivem com uma usina termelétrica alimentada com carvão que há cinco décadas co Source: Five decades breathing coal and losing year
Protests spread in Western Balkans along with air pollution
February 19, 2018
Community organisations across the region are fed up with worsening air quality and are taking their grievances to the streets
They warn of the risks of coal-fired thermoelectric plants
February 18, 2018
Bankwatch Network, una red de protección del medioambiente y derechos humanos, advierte el peligro de las centrales de carbón. Source: They warn of the risks of coal-fired thermoelectric plants
Why is Kosovo going ahead with a lignite coal power plant that is extremely expensive and dangerous to health?
February 13, 2018
Toxins in the air have reached “hazardous” levels in Pristina, Kosovo, last week. A ban on cars is welcome. But the real problem is the lignite coal plants nearby. So why is the Kosovo government, the US and the World Bank all supporting yet another ne
As pollution blankets Pristina, so do protests
January 31, 2018
Hundreds of people fed up of breathing polluted air have joined a protest in Pristina, Kosovo earlier today.
Gacko: if only the laws were as strong as the air pollution
January 16, 2018
Gacko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is home to a coal power plant and an open cast mine and it has a serious smog problem. But you wouldn’t know it from official measurements because the local air quality rules are uniquely lax, and there are no publicly available, official measurements.
Smog Chokes the Balkans
January 9, 2018
As heating is turned up to beat the mid-winter cold, the Balkan peninsula is grappling with a well-known foe: suffocating levels of air pollution. Source: Smog Chokes the Balkans
Bankwatch: Montenegro Should Drop Construction of Pljevlja 2 TPP
January 8, 2018
Now that the Montenegrin government and the power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) have officially announced the termination of the contract with the Czech company Škoda Praha for construction of the second unit of the Pljevlja thermal power pl
