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New arrests should dampen Serbia's appetite for coal
Blog entry | February 4, 2015

Corruption cases continue to haunt Serbia’s coal sector as a new round of arrests last week has shown. They also illustrate how the dependence on coal creates vulnerabilities for Serbia’s energy sector and potentially its financiers, in particular in the aftermath of last year’s floods.

Chinese investors
EBRD
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Balkans, coal, corruption, EU neighbourhood, floods, Kostolac, lignite, mining, Soko, Štavalj
Guest post: Resettlement process for Kosovo Power Project does not comply with international standards
Blog entry | February 3, 2015

A report being presented today analyses the process with which 7000 are to be resettled for the Kosovo lignite mine and concludes that the World Bank-financed process does not comply with the bank's own standards and is plagued by a slew of other weaknesses.

World Bank Group
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Mining
Balkans, coal, EU neighbourhood, KOSID, Kosovo, mining, resettlement, World Bank
EBRD suspends loan for Romanian coal plant Turceni
Press release | January 30, 2015

Bucharest -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed this week that it has suspended plans to finance the refurbishment of the Turceni coal power plant in Romania. The project is currently subject to a number of legal challenges on environmental grounds and Romanian authorities are investigating allegations of corruption at the plant.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, EU, success, Turceni
Croatians say no to coal in referendum
Press release | January 26, 2015

Zagreb – Inhabitants of the city of Ploče on the Croatian coast overwhelmingly rejected a plan to build an 800 MW coal plant in their town in a referendum taking place over the weekend. The vote raises questions about the acceptability of other coal projects planned in the country, including the controversial Plomin C.

Energy & climate
Development
Alstom, Balkans, coal, EU, HEP, Marubeni, Plomin C, referendum
UPDATE 7: Juncker on the investment offensive ... against Europeans, the economy and the environment
Blog entry | January 22, 2015

Labelled the €1.3 trillion investment offensive, more than 2000 projects have been identified by the European Commission’s new Task Force on Investment (made up of representatives of the EC, EIB and member states) for fast-tracked financing from President Juncker’s recently announced €315 billion stimulus plan.

EIB
Energy & climate
Transport
Resource efficiency
Social & economic impacts
Other harmful projects
Development
Antwerp Ring Road, Aschach, CEE, coal, Czeczott, dam, Danube, displacement, economics, EFSI, environmental impacts, EU, growth, Gubin, health, hydropower, incinerators, investment package, Juncker, lignite, Lipno, mining, nuclear, pollution, protected areas, protests, resettlement, Rovinari, safety, Slatinka, sustainability, tunnel, Turceni, Vltava, waste, Zagreb

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