Balkan NGO position paper on civil society monitoring of the future Transport Community South-East Europe
May 13, 2010
The paper, sent to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) discusses the need to involve environmental civil society organisations in the development and approval of the Treaty for the establishment of the Transport community with the countries of the Western Balkans.
Bankwatch Mail 44
May 12, 2010
In this issue: EBRD own goal on coal will under-mine clean energy ambitions * Croatia: land of sun, sea and contradictory strategies * Sustainable energy mischief in Ukraine * Mining’s winners and losers on show in new film * Hopes and more fears in Central Asia * More sustainable development pipedreams? BTC shows how not to do Nabucco * Post-conflict aid to Georgia: mission accomplished or fait accompli?
Letter to EIB on the D1 motorway project outlining developments since the Complaints Offices Conclusion Report in November 13, 2009
May 11, 2010
Preliminary report on impacts on the Rojkovske Raselinisko Mire by the proposed motorway D1 Turany-Hubova, Slovakia
May 10, 2010
Illustrated report on the most significant impacts of the D1 motorway in Slovakia, prepared by Jan Topercer, commissioned by Friends of the Earth-CEPA and CEE Bankwatch Network.
Antea Cement, Kruja, Albania – EBRD AGM Issue Paper
May 10, 2010
In July 2007 the Government of Albania approved the construction of a cement factory in the municipality of Kruja, 30 kilometres north of the capital Tirana. The investor, Antea Cement, a subsidiary of Greeces TITAN Cement Group, completed the construction of the plant and started production in January 2010. The plant is the second in close vicinity to and the third located in the municipality of Kruja. The project features Chinese technology with equipment from the manufacturer and contractor CBMI Construction Co. Ltd., which required bringing up to 700 Chinese workers to the site.
ArcelorMittal Temirtau – a never ending story – EBRD AGM Issue Paper
May 10, 2010
For three years already ArcelorMittal Temirtau (AMT), financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has been implementing the USD 100 million Mittal Steel Temirtau – Coal Mine Modernisation project that was approved by the bank in 2007.
Azeri iodine plant – is this local development? – EBRD AGM Issue Paper
May 10, 2010
In 2008 the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved a USD 15 million senior loan for the USD 17 million Azer-Yod LLC iodine manufacturing project in Azerbaijan. While the majority of the plants products will be exported, the lives of locals are made worse than they already are because of environmental problems caused by the iodine plant.
D1 motorway Phase I, Slovakia – EBRD AGM Issue Paper
May 10, 2010
Both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank approved loans for the D1 motorway Phase I project in Slovakia, which seeks to link the economically wealthier western part of Slovakia with the less developed eastern part. The project is to be financed through a public-private partnership (PPP), which has been the cause of considerable controversy in Slovakia, as has the fact that the planned route impacts protected Natura 2000 areas.
Financial intermediaries: Do economic, environmental and social benefits lie behind the big numbers? – EBRD AGM Issue Paper
May 10, 2010
In order to prevent the collapse of the banking sector in central and eastern Europe following the outbreak of economic crisis conditions in autumn 2008, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a large number of loans to private banks in the region. Yet even though this form of lending is taking on ever greater importance at the EBRD, next to no concrete details about what it is achieving and who is benefiting from it exist for the public.
One Gazela, two Gazelas, three Gazelas… – EBRD AGM Issue Paper on the Gazela resettlement
May 10, 2010
The removal and resettlement of the informal Gazela settlement from beneath the Gazela Bridge on highway Corridor X over the Sava River in Belgrade’s downtown took place in August 2009. Despite the involvement of international financial institutions (the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank) and foreign development agencies (the European Agency for Reconstruction and the UK Department for International Development), the resettlement has not brought satisfactory results.