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    30.06.2021 hot topic icon

    The role of traditional rituals in resisting energy injustice: The case of hydropower developments in Svaneti, Georgia

    • Kety Gujaraidze
    • Nino Antadze

    The study intervenes in the energy justice literature by bringing to the foreground the local, emplaced, and bottom-up perspective

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    05.05.2021 hot topic icon

    The cracks of Shuakhevi

    • Rusudan Panozishvili

    Water is leaking out of Shuakhevi hydropower plant’s recently reopened dam again. With three international financial institutions involved, who’s responsible for the safety of this USD 420 million project?

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    05.03.2018 hot topic icon

    Indigenous Svan communities unite to block hydro development in Svaneti

    Protesters meet in Mestia to issue a petition that would block harmful infrastructural developments in Svaneti. Representatives of all 17 communities of Upper Svaneti gathered in Mestia

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    04.12.2017 hot topic icon

    Price tag of Georgia’s Nenskra dam goes through the roof

    • Dato Chipashvili

    New information reveals the disproportionate price that Georgia’s government guarantees to pay for electricity from the Nenskra dam. The increasingly unfavourable economics strengthen calls to finally make the project’s contract publicly available.

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    04.12.2017 hot topic icon

    Price tag of Georgia’s Nenskra dam goes through the roof

    New information reveals the disproportionate price that Georgia’s government guarantees to pay for electricity from the Nenskra dam. The increasingly unfavourable economics strengthen calls to finally make the project’s contract publicly available

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    20.02.2017 hot topic icon

    Don’t Dam the rivers - The story of Nenskra Hydropower plant in Svaneti, Georgia

    Government of Georgia has promoted hydropower as a way of tackling energy security and turning the country into a regional energy player and introduced plans to construct over 114 hydropower plants (HPPs) in Georgia1

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    05.07.2016 hot topic icon

    New mudflow hits Georgian village as rainy season reveals poor assessment of hydropower plans

    As rains cause mudflows in Georgia’s mountains, locals from different regions unite to protest hydropower developments in geologically unstable areas

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    26.05.2016 hot topic icon

    Eight arrested in protest against Georgian dam

    • Dato Chipashvili

    Protests against large dams in Georgia’s Svaneti mountains have led to confrontations with police. Locals are losing patience over the protracted consultation process on the project

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    03.05.2016 hot topic icon

    In Georgia, protests against dams precede development bank meetings

    Protests have in recent weeks broken out across rural Georgia after construction resumed on several large dam projects. At the sites of the Shuakhevi, Nenskra and the Dariali hydropower plants, demonstrators have complained

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    31.03.2016 hot topic icon

    New agreement for Georgian Khudoni dam signals expropriations and tariff hike

    • Klara Sikorova

    After hitting a snag, the Khudoni dam in Georgia’s mountains is back in the game threatening to expropriate private lands and to bump up electricity prices for Georgian consumers. The controversial changes in an amended contract have inflamed the passion of the Svans who have for years tried to protect their communities from flooding.

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    02.02.2016 hot topic icon

    Nenskra hydropower plant, Georgia

    For the last decade, the government of Georgia has promoted hydropower as a way of tackling energy security and turning the country into a regional energy player. The EBRD has been one of the key catalysts of this hydro boom

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    24.09.2013 hot topic icon

    In Georgia, dam builders do not welcome peoples' concerns

    Statements and behaviour of Georgian authorities show their determination to go ahead with the construction of the huge Khudoni dam that would displace more than 2000 indigenious Svans, regardless of public protests

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