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Bar’s battle: Montenegrin town rising against LNG project

March 5, 2024

Plans to build a fossil gas import terminal on Montenegro’s coast, with backing from the European Commission, endanger the country’s fossil fuel phaseout. Growing local opposition to the project also underlines poor public participation in the process.


Montenegrin NGOs counter Varhelyi pledge on LNG terminal

October 24, 2023

27 civil society organisations have sent a joint letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, (1) questioning a recent statement by Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi that the EU would help Montenegro to build a liquified gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Bar (2), and calling on the EU not to support the project.


Latvia abandons plans for controversial LNG terminal but still needs to ditch fossil gas

April 12, 2023

Latvia’s government announced yesterday (11 April) it is terminating plans for a liquified fossil gas (commonly termed liquified natural gas or LNG) terminal in Skulte.


Western Balkans: EUR 3.5 billion gas build-out poses economic, energy security risks and threatens green transition

March 30, 2023

Prague, Czech Republic – Plans for EUR 3.5 billion of new gas-fired power plants, pipelines, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the Western Balkans would force countries to import far more gas than they have in the past, introducing economic and energy security risks into the region’s already challenging energy transition, finds new research from Global Energy Monitor and Bankwatch.


LNG rush threatens Baltic energy transition: why new LNG infrastructure is a false solution for energy security in the Baltics

March 14, 2023

As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Baltic states and Finland, which had relied on Russia for fossil gas imports, now lack sufficient alternative infrastructure to cover regional demand. The main efforts to diversify gas sources and reduce regi


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