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Home > Archives for deforestation

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Six years later, a criminal investigation into illegal environment permits finally begins in Romania

September 13, 2018

In 2012, almost one hundred permits were issued to Oltenia Energy Complex (OEC), allowing the company to cut down hectares of forest to make way for coal mines. The permits were issued illegally, however, as Bankwatch Romania proved in court over the past six years. After many lawsuits and complaints to the relevant authorities, a sign of progress came this summer when the Romanian Ministry for Environment informed criminal investigation bodies about this situation.


The Runcurel expropriations, Europe’s second most harmful subsidy

May 22, 2017

The Romanian Government has been named and shamed today in a public fossil fuel subsidies awards ceremony in Brussels for fostering land expropriations required for expanding a coal mine, displacing families and destroying nature.


Success: 391 hectares of Romanian forest saved in 2015

January 11, 2016

With one more positive court decision just before the end of the year, Bankwatch Romania had a lot to celebrate in 2015.


Romanian court rejects environmental permit, halting destruction of 159 hectares of forests and putting breaks on coal mining expansion

December 11, 2015

Bucharest – A Bucharest court yesterday annulled the environment permit for the felling of another 159 hectares of forest in Gorj country, effectively preventing the expansion of the Roșia lignite mine.


Eighty hectares of forest still standing in the lignite county of Gorj, court rules

May 20, 2015

Bucharest – Another environmental permit for the deforestation of 80 hectares of forest has been cancelled by a Bucharest court, following a Bankwatch Romania petition. The decision curtails plans to expand a lignite quarry in the Gorj county.


Victories piling up: 130 more hectares of forest saved from lignite mining in Romania

March 12, 2015

Bucharest – A Romanian court has accepted a petition filed by Bankwatch Romania and Greenpeace Romania, and cancelled the environmental permit which allowed cutting down 130 hectares of forests – equivalent to approximately 260 football pitches – to make way for the expansion of the Pinoasa lignite open pit.


Bankwatch stops cutting of another 22 hectares of forest for coal mining in Romania

February 6, 2015

In a file launched by Bankwatch in 2014, a Romanian court annulled [ro] 27 deforestation permits last week, preventing 22 hectares of forest in the country’s south-west to be cut for the expansion of an open-pit coal mine.


Prison netbook – Russia and the arrest of an environmental activist

January 13, 2012

Shortly after 80 000 people took to Moscow’s streets at the end of December to oppose the 4 December controversial parliamentary elections that resulted in United Russia retaining control of parliament, Bankwatch ally and Khimki forest defender Yaroslav Nikitenko was forced to spend ten days in jail over a fabricated administrative crime.


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