Under heavy skies: dire results from first independent pollution monitoring in Montenegro
February 23, 2017
It was ten in the evening on 17 December when my colleague and I arrived in Pljevlja, Montenegro. Although we could feel the smell of burnt coal already while driving there, the minute we set foot out of the car, the air was stifling. “This place remin
I soldi di Milano “smaltiti” in miniera in Montenegro
November 14, 2016
Dal 2009 i cittadini di Milano e Brescia sono proprietari al 40% di una centrale elettrica a lignite. E anche della miniera che la alimenta. Gli impianti si trovano in Montenegro, a Pljevlja, cittadina vicino al confine con la Serbia asfissiata dai fum
TE Stanari – the last TE on coal?
September 21, 2016
Regionalna politika prema ugljenu opire se raciju i ekonomici – BiH planira gradnju najmanje četiri elektrane, a možda i njih sedam, Crna Gora gura neisplativ projekt TE Pljevlja 2, a Kosovo valjda planira svoje stanovništvo opljačkati zlosretnom TE Ko
Time to stop shooting the messenger
November 4, 2014
Repression against civil society is on the rise, as the latest alarming case from Montenegro shows.
Big plans for a small country – Montenegro’s draft energy strategy
June 12, 2014
Montenegro’s new draft energy strategy needs cutting down to size if environmental and economic damage is to be avoided.
Three companies shortlisted for Montenegro lignite plant – but Pljevlja needs a clean-up, not more pollution
March 20, 2014
Pljevlja’s 210 MW lignite power plant, operating since 1982 in northern Montenegro, has caused controversy since the beginning of its lifetime. Even back in late ’70s Yugoslavia when the project was being planned, residents succeeded in pressing for the chimney to be taller than planned (250 metres instead of 200 metres) in an attempt to ensure that the plant’s pollution rose above the hills surrounding Pljevlja and dispersed further away.
