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Juncker’s investment package to be hijacked by countries’ destructive plans
Press release | December 8, 2014

Brussels – A list of projects member states want to see financed from the Juncker investment package has been made public in expectation of tomorrow’s summit where finance ministers will discuss the package. Coal, nuclear and incinerators are among the various countries’ priorities, which fail to add up to the long-term strategic plan to stimulate growth and sustainability in Europe that Juncker promised.

EIB
Energy & climate
Transport
Resource efficiency
CEE, coal, EIB, EU, incinerators, investment package, Juncker, nuclear
European Commission opens infringement procedure against Romania over coal mine
Press release | December 4, 2014

Bucharest -- The European Commission has opened an infringement case against Romania regarding the lignite quarry extension at the Rovinari complex in Gorj County. The Commission suspects Romania of not complying with the EU Directive concerning the environmental impact assessment of projects.

Chinese investors
Energy & climate
Mining
Balkans, coal, environmental protection, EU, European Commission, infringement, mining, Rovinari, success
Sostanj lignite plant: A mistake not to be repeated
Press release | December 2, 2014

Ljubljana -- A new briefing by Slovenian NGO Focus shows how misguided assessments of future viability and corruption led to TES6 lignite unit costing more than double the estimated amount, bringing annual losses of tens of millions of euros, and creating only a fraction of the number of jobs promised.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, costs, EU, lignite, TES6
Two great new websites on all things coal
Blog entry | October 31, 2014

As anti-coal movements are gaining momentum around the world, two new websites offer a slew of information about the dirtiest of fossil fuels and the campaigns against it. They also offer a stark reminder that despite progress in the last years coal is far from dead.

Chinese investors
Commercial banks
EBRD
EIB
World Bank Group
Energy & climate
Balkans, BankTrack, campaign, Central Asia, coal, commercial banks, endcoal.org, EU, Global South, resources
Marubeni, hands off Plomin!
Blog entry | October 28, 2014

As Marubeni executive Hiroshi Tachigami attended today's Energy Market Conference in Zagreb this morning, Greenpeace activists hung a banner from the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall in Zagreb, advising Marubeni to keep its hands off the Plomin C coal power plant project.

Energy & climate
Alstom, Balkans, coal, Marubeni, Plomin C, protest

Coal