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We investigate the impacts of public finance, work with affected communities and local organisations across the world and help them protect their rights and livelihoods. We make sure their stories are being told in Europe’s power centers.
We regularly meet representatives of the institutions we monitor and we’re in Brussels, too, doing our bit to make Europe a fairer, cleaner and sustainable place.
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Komarnica hydropower plant, Montenegro
Planned by Montenegro’s state-owned electricity utility EPCG, the need for the Komarnica hydropower plant has never been proven.
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Ugljevik power plant, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Commissioned in 1985, the 300 MW coal power plant in Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has become famous for emitting more sulphur dioxide than all of Germany’s coal power plants in 2019.
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Pljevlja I power plant, Montenegro
The existing 225 MW Pljevlja thermal power plant in the north of Montenegro, near the borders with Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been operating since 1982. The plant was originally planned to comprise two units but the second one was never built. The plant, along with the extensive use of coal and wood for heating, has caused unbearably bad air quality in the town.
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Bankwatch Mail 4
Bankwatch Mail | 7 November, 1999 | Download PDFIn this issue dedicated to participation: Balkan Groups Cite Investment Priorities for Post-War Reconstruction *Delta Lloyd Said NO to Nuclear Investment *Paving Over Public Participation *EU Accession: Is Anyone Thinking of Alternatives? *Czech Public Concerned By EU Pre-Accession Funding *CEE Bankwatch Network Goes West *EIB Supported Project in Storm of Corruption *Estonia to Lower Emission Standards? *Lithuanian Greens Stop Construction of Airport in Curonian Spit National Park *New Coal Power Station in Georgia *Macedonia to Become a Medical Waste Dump for the Balkans?
Bankwatch Mail 2
Bankwatch Mail | 2 August, 1999 | Download PDFIn this EIB Issue: EIB – Eminence Grease of Europe * EIB: Europe’s Biggest Bulldozer * EIB Highway In Bulgaria * World Bank And Lithuanian Airport * Who In Ukraine Wants Nuclear Reactors?
Bankwatch Mail 3
Bankwatch Mail | 2 August, 1999 | Download PDFIn this World Bank AGM issue: Balkan Reconstruction * EIA In Estonia * Lithuanian Airport * Nuclear Reactors In Eastern Europe * Energy Efficiency Funds Unused In Ukraine
Bankwatch Mail 1
Bankwatch Mail | 1 April, 1999 | Download PDFIn this EBRD issue: EBRD Bankers Gone Crazy? * Rushing For Caspian Oil * Kumtor’s Gold * K2/R4 * Nuclear Safety Account
Environmental Impact Assessments for Completion of Rivne Unit 4 and Khmelnitsky Unit 2 Nuclear Power Stations. Addendum. Environmental Impact of the Non-Nuclear Alternative
Official document | 17 September, 1998 | Download PDFconducted by Mouchel Consulting Ltd.