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Macedonian hydropower complaint highlights EBRD’s enduring opacity

February 11, 2019

After almost a year of struggling to get basic environmental information from the EBRD about the Krapska hydropower project, Bankwatch has submitted an official complaint [1] to the bank’s Secretary General. As we run the same administrative circles over and over again, another precious river valley has been irreversibly damaged.


Mini-centrali idroelettriche, Belgrado verso lo stop

November 29, 2018

In Serbia una legge vieterà la costruzione di nuove dighe sui corsi d’acqua che attraversano parchi e zone naturali: prima vittoria degli ambientalisti Source: Mini-centrali idroelettriche, Belgrado verso lo stop


Shoqatat e ekologëve kërkojnë anulimin e projekteve për hidroelektrana në PK Mavrovë – Arbresh.info

March 17, 2018

Qeveria akoma nuk e ka anuluar ndërtimin e hidroelektranave në Parkun Kombëtar Mavrovë, as nuk i ndërprerë kontratat e koncesioneve që janë shkelur edhe pse këtë gjë e ka kërkuar Komiteti i Konventës së Bernit për mbrojtjen e botës së egër bimore dhe s


Indigenous Svan communities unite to block hydro development in Svaneti

March 5, 2018

Protesters meet in Mestia to issue a petition that would block harmful infrastructural developments in Svaneti.


Guest post: One beast with many heads – a hydropower hydra in the Balkans

December 21, 2017

A visit to six mountain rivers and nine small dams in Macedonia exposed similar problems with many of them.


Europe’s Last Wild Rivers Could Soon Drown [Video]

June 29, 2016

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy—at a big cost


Reckless dam financing rampant in the Balkans

December 17, 2015

A new Bankwatch report has found that loans totalling EUR 818 million from international public ‘development’ banks have supported 75 hydropower projects in the Balkans, including 30 which directly affect protected areas such as national parks, Natura 2000 sites and Ramsar sites.


Improvements needed in transparency and environmental soundness of EBRD-financed hydropower facilities

December 15, 2015

In light of the worrying findings of a study on hydropower projects in southeast Europe – most notably the high number of projects in protected areas – this letter asks the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to better implement its environmental and social policy and hydropower sustainability criteria, establish no-go zones in protected areas and rivers of outstanding quality, and disclose project information about projects with a clear environmental impact which are financed through financial intermediaries.


Infographics: Pristine Balkan rivers threatened by European “green energy” funding for hydropower

December 14, 2015

A wave of hydropower development fuelled by European public funding and EU companies is endangering pristine river environments in the Balkans.


Study: Development Banks Financing HPP Projects at Protected Sites in Balkans

December 14, 2015

A wave of hydropower development fuelled by European public funding and EU companies is endangering pristine river environments in the Balkans, finds a new study released last Friday by the Central and Eastern European (CEE) Bankwatch Network.


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