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Nach der Atomkatastrophe von Tschernobyl könnte man meinen, dass die Erfahrung mit dem Supergau die Ukraine zur Abkehr von der Atomenergie bewogen hätte. Aber das Gegenteil ist der Fall: Bis heute deckt das Land die Hälfte des Strombedarfs mit Kernenergie. An vier Standorten werden dafür insgesamt 15 Reaktoren betrieben. Aber laut Umweltschützern wurden sechs davon bereits über ihre vorgesehene Laufzeit von 30 Jahren hinaus verlängert. Das missfällt auch der österreichischen Regierung.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has raised €350m ($391m) in the first round of fundraising for its debut Equity Participation Fund.

The fund aims to attract long term institutional capital into the private sector of those countries where the EBRD works. It allows large institutional investors to take 20-30% of the interest in all of the EBRD’s eligible investments above €10m ($11m) during a five-year period.

Russia’s plan to revive the Turkish Stream pipeline and the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) project could put future projects along the proposed Southern Gas Corridor under even more pressure.

Gulmira Rzayeva, senior research fellow at Azerbaijan’s Center for Strategic Studies, said the pipeline could affect the second stage of field development in Azerbaijan, including as Absheron, which is forecast to begin production in late 2021. [...]

"Ja ne razumijem kako neki ljudi vole samo sjedit po kafićima. Ja to ne mogu, meni je draže ovdje sjedit", govori Aida dok promatra smaragdno zelenu boju rijeke Bune. Nakon što teče pod zemljom više od 19 kilometara, ova rijeka izvire na površinu 12 kilometara od Mostara u mjestu Blagaj. Buna na površinu spektakularno navire iz špilje, prizor koji privlači brojne turiste. No, i Buna se našla na meti projekta betonizacije BiH rijeka. Bankwatch je pobrojao čak 183 nova planirana projekta na rijekama u toj zemlji.