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Shale tale: Unconventional gas and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
June 12, 2013

During the last months, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has come out with positive statements about shale gas investments, most recently on Poland - a rather rash endorsement of a controversial technology.

EBRD
Energy & climate
CEE, EBRD, energypolicy, EU, fracking, Poland, policy, shale gas
[Campaign update] The reality of resettlement in Kolubara: Out of the frying pan into the fire
June 4, 2013

A quick visit to the Kolubara mining basin reveals that the resettlement there looks nothing like the presentation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

EBRD
Social & economic impacts
Balkans, EPS, EU neighbourhood, human rights, Kolubara, lignite, mining, resettlement, Serbia
Face the future: Members of European Parliament discuss energy lending of European public banks
June 3, 2013

A roundtable discussion on European public banks and energy lending brought together Members of the European Parliament and non-governmental organisations, while the public banks themselves chose to stay away.

EBRD
EIB
Energy & climate
climate action, EBRD, EIB, energy, energypolicy, EU, EU, European Commission, European Parliament, event
Victory for civil society as EBRD cancels loan for controversial Croatian dam
May 28, 2013

Today we're relieved in Zagreb as one energy project that could have had a destructive impact on Croatia's future has lost its financing and thus its chances of going ahead are drastically reduced: I’m speaking about the infamous Ombla dam, a project for an underground hydropower plant that would have practically destroyed a protected area close to Dubrovnik.

EBRD
Other harmful projects
Balkans, biodiversity, Croatia, EBRD, EU, hydropower, success, Vilina Cave
Divesting from coal is not ideology but climate science - a reminder for the EBRD
May 14, 2013

The energy director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has made astonishing statements about coal investments prompting Bankwatch's EBRD campaign team to react.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Balkans, Caucasus, CEE, Central Asia, climate, climate action, climate science, coal, EBRD annual meeting, energypolicy, EU, EU neighbourhood, fossil fuels, guardian, Puliti, Southern Mediterranean
[Campaign update] EBRD still not withdrawing from damaging Ombla hydropower project, NGOs call on bank to heed new evidence
May 13, 2013

Despite having a slew of good reasons not to support the damaging Ombla hydropower plan in Croatia, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development still didn't confirm during recent meetings that it would withdraw from the project.

EBRD
Other harmful projects
Balkans, biodiversity, Croatia, EBRD, EU, hydropower, Ombla
Fair treatment is a long time coming at Serbia's Kolubara lignite mine
May 13, 2013

People from the Kolubara mine basin in Serbia have many stories to tell about the hardships they face due to the lignite mining operations. Serbian Bankwatcher Nikola Perusic adds his account to two stories in the guardian and in Bankwatch Mail 56.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Other harmful projects
Balkans, coal, energypolicy, EU neighbourhood, Kolubara, mining, resettlement, water
Public action: Croatian coal power plant besieged by 680 bodies
May 10, 2013

Yesterday, Green Action/Zelena Akcija, Greenpeace and Green Istria staged a spooky public action to raise attention for the findings of a new study that predicts approximately 17 early deaths annually due to the planned new 500 MW unit at the Plomin coal power plant in Croatia.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, Croatia, EU, health, Plomin, protest, public action, study
Guest post: Development banks and the Arab Spring, new report takes stock
May 6, 2013

A new report takes a critical look at the engagement of European development banks in Egypt after the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North African region. This article appeared originally on the Counter Balance blog and has been shortened and slightly edited.

EBRD
EIB
World Bank Group
Social & economic impacts
Arab Sping, dictatorships, Egypt, employment, EU neighbourhood, human rights, PPP, public-private partnerships, Southern Mediterranean
Guest post: New studies fail to prove that the Ombla hydroplant is fit for EBRD financing
April 22, 2013

The EBRD's involvement in the Ombla hydropower plant project has from the start been a story of insufficient scrutiny and cutting procedural corners, followed by an attempt to patch things up by commissioning a belated nature impact assessment. The assessment highlights the Ombla area's natural importance and captures some of the harm that would be done by the dam, but fails to draw the right conclusions, says Jagoda Munic, President of Friends of the Earth International and Biodiversity Programme Co-ordinator at Zelena akcija/Friends of the Earth Croatia.

EBRD
Other harmful projects
Balkans, biodiversity, Croatia, endemic species, EU, hydropower, Ombla, Vilina Cave

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