Bankwatch: Locals oppose dam endangering critical fish habitat in...
Read below Bankwatch's blog post about local opposition against a dam on the Vrbas in Bosnia-Herzegovina that, if build, would further devastate already endangered fish habitat. This river stretch is...
View ArticleBankwatch: Where has all the water gone?
The Vjosa is by far not the only river in Albania threatened by hydropower. At the Qarishte river in central Albania, residents are faced with the dire consequences of the Rapuni dam. Read this...
View ArticleBankwatch: Hydropower in Albania – from Hoxha to the EBRD
HPPs are popping up in Albania like bunkers in Hoxha’s time – with little regard for people and nature, just like in the “old days”. Only that it is not Hoxha, but the EBRD and other international...
View ArticleInternational banks fuelling a hydropower tsunami that’s decimating pristine...
+++ Multilateral development banks have supported no fewer than 82 hydropower projects across southeast Europe, including in protected areas, according to a study by CEE Bankwatch Network released...
View ArticleBankwatch: Why not even small HPPs should be built in protected areas
How come that a destructive project like that is being approved within a protected area? How can it be that a project within a protected area even receives funding? How is it possible that the funding...
View ArticleEBRD tightens standards in response to Balkan hydropower boom
As a result of public resistance to small-scale hydropower projects in the Balkans, and in consequence to the milestone bank summit between the financial sector and green activists on March 1st, the...
View ArticleNew report: hydropower subsidies wreak environmental havoc and line...
++ Disproportionate public subsidies for small hydropower in the Western Balkans have resulted in widespread environmental damage and have benefited wealthy business people close to or part of the...
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