The ‘Second Backbone Corridor’ – High voltage electricity transmission lines, Ukraine

EU ‘ignoring safety risks’ in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine

March 17, 2011

As Japan’s Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe.

The EU forgets Chernobyl as it encourages Ukraine to become major nuclear-generated electricity exporter

March 15, 2011

Ukraine has an energy strategy that sees significant new nuclear build. The European Investment Bank’s “Trans-European Networks” initiative encourages this new build by increasing the capacity for power exports to the West

EU public funds for “securing” dirty coal and nuclear energy Ukraine transmission lines background paper

March 15, 2011

Over the past few years, a series of strategies, agreements and loans have brought the EU and Ukraine into closer cooperation on perpetuating nuclear and carbon-intensive energy infrastructure and generation, with international financial institutions (IFIs) brokering the deals.

Comments to draft EBRD country strategy for Ukraine

March 14, 2011

The ‘Second Backbone Corridor’ – High voltage electricity transmission lines, Ukraine

February 18, 2011

In its drive for ‘energy security’, the EU is looking to its eastern neighbour for cheap energy. But using a series of high-voltage transmission lines to import dirty energy supplies like nuclear and coal power from Ukraine will not make the EU safer, and it will lock both into an unstable and environmentally unsound energy mix.