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NGOs demand transparency in negotiations over Plomin C coal project in Croatia
Blog entry | March 5, 2015

Croatian electricity company HEP on Monday announced that it had signed an exclusivity agreement to conduct further negotiations with Japan's Marubeni - a company which has been implicated in several corruption scandals.

Transport
Development
Balkans, Balkans, coal, EU, Marubeni, Plomin C
EBRD must not back Egyptian coal imports
Press release | February 24, 2015

Cairo -- Ahead of tomorrow’s Board vote on the EBRD loan to CEMEX Egypt, a number of civil society organisations [*], inlcuding Egyptian groups, urge the bank to reject this project not only because it involves support for dirty coal-based production but also because it actually means promoting the plans of a repressive government despite opposition from civil society.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Development
cement, coal, EU neighbourhood, MENA, SEMED, Southern Mediterranean
European banks: it's time to quit coal in Ukraine
Blog entry | February 13, 2015

In a street action being held today in Kiev as part of the Global Divestment Day, Ukrainians call on public and private investors to end financing for fossil fuels, in particular coal, and instead invest in renewable energy sources which represent the only independent source for the country.

Commercial banks
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Development
Burshtyn, CEE, coal, Deutsche Bank, divestment, Dobrotvir, DTEK, EU neighbourhood, Raiffeisen, RBS, UniCredit
Guest post: Pljevlja shareholder A2A must resist pressure to build new lignite unit in Montenegro
Blog entry | February 11, 2015

Montenegro's government is pushing hard for the construction of a new unit at the Pljevlja lignite-fired power plant. NGOs are encouraging the major shareholder company to not give in to this pressure, writes Jelena Marojević Galić from Green Home.

Energy & climate
A2A, BalkanCoal, Balkans, coal, EU neighbourhood, health, lignite, pollution
Bankwatch stops cutting of another 22 hectares of forest for coal mining in Romania
Blog entry | February 6, 2015

In a file launched by Bankwatch in 2014, a Romanian court annulled [ro] 27 deforestation permits last week, preventing 22 hectares of forest in the country’s south-west to be cut for the expansion of an open-pit coal mine.

Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, deforestation, EU, mining, Oltenia Energy Complex

Coal