Georgian Green Alternative’s Comments on World Bank’s new disclosure policy approach
July 24, 2009
Critical comments by Green Alternative, Georgia on the World Bank Approach Paper and Consultation Plan ‘Toward Greater Transparency: Rethinking the World Banks Disclosure Policy’.
Letter to IFIs regarding Georgian hydropower plants
July 23, 2009
We have received the following responses: On July 29, 2009 from EBRD (pdf here). On August 4, 2009 from EIB (pdf here). On August 27, 2009 from World Bank (pdf here).
Dam Big Impact – The energy sector development in Georgia
July 23, 2009
The energy policy of the Georgian government supported by a number of IFIs, aims at utilising the hydroenergy potential in the country in order to overcome the existing energy crisis. But effectively, this policy has the potential to cause significant negative impact on the environment, to drastically change the social and demographic situation in Georgia’s mountain areas and to devastate the existing cultural heritage.
Letter to the European Commission regarding the shift of Kresna Gorge motorway’s financing to past 2013
July 23, 2009
EU financing of the motorway corridor through Kresna Gorge, the most controversial and difficult section of the Struma motorway, has been shifted to the next financial period 2014-2020. While an agreement between NGOs and the Bulgarian government states that the route will be implemented via tunnel(s) in order to preserve the area’s great biodiversity, environmentalists now fear that once other parts of the motorway are completed, the tunnel route might be scrapped by the Bulgarian authorities.
Intergovernmental agreement for Nabucco project
July 14, 2009
The full text is available from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Joint Declaration of the States Parties to the Agreement on the Nabucco Project
July 14, 2009
The full text is available from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Letter to DG Environment regarding the Nabucco pipeline project
July 8, 2009
The letter to European Commission, DG Environment raises political and environmental concerns related to the Nabucco pipeline, among others the human rights situation in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. On September 8, 2009 we received a response from DG Environment. Download it a pdf here.
Media briefing on the Nabucco gas pipeline
June 26, 2009
Risky deal, risky business: the Khudoni hydropower plant, Georgia
June 26, 2009
This report reviews documents provided by the Georgian government and the World Bank, and a number of independent research reports regarding the Georgian power sector and highlights the concerns of the local people towards the Khudoni HPP as expressed during the public hearings organized in Svaneti in summer 2008.
Letter to EBRD regarding results from a Bankwatch fact finding mission to the Kapan mine, Armenia
June 25, 2009
On September 28, 2009 we received a response from EBRD. Download it as pdf here.