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Cross-border coal pollution for the first time under scrutiny by UN body
Blog entry | September 22, 2014

A new unit at the Kostolac coal-fired power plant in Serbia is the first coal project to be considered by the Espoo Convention Implementation Committee for transboundary impacts.

Energy & climate
Balkans, Chinese investors, CMEC, coal, consultation, Espoo Convention, EU neighbourhood, health, Kostolac, pollution, Serbia, success
The future is ash-grey for people in Turceni, Romania
Blog entry | September 9, 2014

People in the Submaidane-Turceni area in Romania live their lives in coal ash that still hasn’t been cleaned up after an accident that took place in December 2013 at an ash deposit belonging to the Oltenia Energy Complex in Turceni.

Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
accident, ash, Balkans, coal, EU, health, pollution, sludge, Turceni
Romanian government is seeking financial support in China for time travel into a lignite past
Blog entry | September 3, 2014

The renewables capacity installed in Romania has grown tenfold in the last five years and constitutes 23 percent of Romania's installed energy capacity. Still, the government is pushing for new lignite-fired power plants.

Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Balkans, Chinese investors, coal, EU, lignite, renewables, Romania, Rovinari
Forests sitting on lignite saved in Romania
Blog entry | August 14, 2014

Bankwatch and Greenpeace won a court case* in Romania this week, which will effectively prevent 59 hectares (the equivalent of 118 football pitches) of forest from being destroyed by the expansion of one of the open-pit coal mines that supplies Rovinari, one of the largest coal plants in Romania.

Energy & climate
CEE, coal, environmental permit, lignite, Romania
Public in Bosnia-Herzegovina to pay for shaky economics of Tuzla 7 coal plant, but will officials take heed?
Blog entry | July 21, 2014

After several years of developments related to a seventh unit at the Tuzla power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the public is now able to understand the plant's economics, thanks to a document published in the run-up to a debate in the Federation of BiH parliament this week. It might have been a better idea to have this debate earlier, considering that the news is not exactly good for the project developer, Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH).

Energy & climate
Balkans, BiH, coal, energy, Energy Community, power, Tuzla

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