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Republika Srpska’s 300 MW Stanari TPP Starts Commercial Operation
Bankwatch in the media | September 21, 2016

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Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, fossil fuels, Kings of Coal
Guest post: The last coal plant in the Western Balkans?
Blog entry | September 20, 2016

The Stanari lignite power plant in Bosnia officially starts operations today. If we are to have any hope of tackling climate change, it had better be the last one in the region.

Chinese investors
Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, economic feasibility, EU neighbourhood, Stanari
[Campaign update] Impact Assessment of Serbian Kostolac B3 coal plant nullified, two investigative reports published
Blog entry | August 3, 2016

Two reports by the Serbian Center for Investigative Journalism take stock of the problems surrounding the planned Kostolac B3 lignite power plant, including a recent court decision that cancelled the project's Environmental Impact Assessment.

Chinese investors
Energy & climate
Balkans, China ExIm Bank, CINS, CMEC, coal, Environmental Impact Assessment, Espoo Convention, Kostolac, state-aid
Montenegrin power plant feasible only with creative accounting
Blog entry | August 1, 2016

Just as everyone else was going on holiday, on Friday night the Montenegrin parliament approved two decisions laying the ground for the controversial Pljevlja II lignite power plant. But a look at the project documentation released by the government shows that the project’s economics only add up with some giant leaps of faith.

Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, economic feasibility, Pljevlja, Skoda
A ray of light for communities in Serbia's coal heartland
Blog entry | July 22, 2016

For more than 50 years, the lignite mines in Serbia's Kolubara basin have been expanding, effectively engulfing the few small communities living between them. For local residents, whose homes have quite literally been teetering on the brink of the mines, life has become unbearable. But a recent court ruling might be paving the way to a long overdue reprieve for residents who have been promised to be relocated.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Mining
Balkans
BalkanCoal, Balkans, coal, court, Energy Community, Kolubara, resettlement, Vreoci

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