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Albania’s draft renewables law must support small producers and end incentives for hydropower

October 21, 2022

Albania’s new draft renewables law brings welcome changes such as a target for solar water heating but is too vague on crucial points such as sustainability, small plants, heat pumps and rooftop solar. Attracting big investors is important, but are small producers being neglected?


Three Hydropowers in Theth National Park and Shala River Receive Backing from China

January 4, 2022

A total of three hydropower plants are expected to be built on the Shala River in the north of Albania, an area known for its outstanding …


Albanie «Avec cette hydrocentrale, je perdrais tout»

September 27, 2018

Le petit Etat des Balkans est l’un des rares pays européens à conserver ses cours d’eau intacts, telle la rivière Vjosa. Une manne convoitée par les compagnies d’hydroélectricité qui veulent y implanter des barrages, mais entre les agriculteurs refusan


Du gaz azéri pour l’Europe

April 17, 2018

L’indépendance énergétique de l’Europe. Tout un programme, et en ces temps de tension extrême avec Moscou, tout projet qui vise à réduire notre dépendance au gaz russe est plus que bienvenu. C’est le cas du Corridor gazier sud-européen, 3 500 km de tuy


The fight for Europe′s last untamed river

August 24, 2017

The Vjosa in southern Albania is the last free-flowing river in Europe and is crucial to thousands of livelihoods. But the Balkan frenzy over hydropower threatens the future of the entire valley. Source: The fight for Europe′s last untamed river | Envi


TAP in Albania

August 26, 2016

Organizata joqeveritare Bank Watch Network po kryen nje vizite dhe inspektim ne vendin tone per te pare nga afer zbatimin e projekteve madhore me impakt ne ekonomi. Sipas perfaqesuesve te kesaj organizate eshte mjaft e rendesishme qe gjate implementimit ne terren te projekteve madhore dhe afatgjata te merren parasysh interesat e banoreve dhe qytetareve per tu ofruar atyre zgjidhje te qendrueshme.


‘We have no other option’ – Albanian communities face unjust resettlement process for Trans-Adriatic Pipeline

August 4, 2016

What is a perceived source of security for some can cause instability for others’ lives.


Oil casts long shadow over local people in Albania

March 20, 2014

Local development and investments in resource extraction rarely go together hand in hand. Bankwatch’s Media coordinator David Hoffman reports back on a recent visit to the EBRD sponsored Patos Marinza oil field in Albania. The case provides valuable lessons for the current revision of the EBRD’s safeguard policies.


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