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    09.04.2020 hot topic icon

    Status update on the Nenskra hydropower plant project

    New comprehensive assessments of project alternatives, climate risks, and environmental and social impacts are necessary if the project will ever restart

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    06.09.2019 hot topic icon

    NGOs urge Members of Parliament against casting vote of confidence for Gakharia's candidacy

    On September 8, the Parliament of Georgia will be casting vote of confidence for the new government. We urge the Members of the Parliament of Georgia, regardless of their party affiliation or political stance, not to support the appointment of Giorgi Gakharia as a Prime Minister

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    18.06.2019 hot topic icon

    IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT FOR THE NENSKRA HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT

    A leaked contract between the Georgian government and the company behind the Nenskra hydropower project includes terms that indicate the project will incur massive losses for the state, according to a report broadcast on 8 June by the national television station Rustavi 2.

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    10.06.2019 hot topic icon

    In Georgia, leaked contract shows Nenskra hydropower project to cost country USD 60 million a year

    Prague, Tbilisi ­– A leaked contract between the Georgian government and the company behind the Nenskra hydropower project includes terms that indicate the project will incur massive losses for the state, according to a report

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    08.05.2019 hot topic icon

    Five reasons why EBRD should pull out of the controversial Nenskra hydropower project

    • Ido Liven

    As the realisation of the project keeps dragging on, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the EBRD, and all international financial institutions involved, to justify their engagement.

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    15.11.2018 hot topic icon

    Leaked World Bank report depicts Georgia’s Nenskra hydropower project as major liability

    • Dato Chipashvili

    Successive international analyses have cast serious doubts over the financial viability of the planned Nenskra plant. While the Georgian government keeps the project’s contract confidential, a leaked World Bank report offers a scathing account of the fiscal implications of this hydropower development.

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    15.11.2017 hot topic icon

    Déjà vu in biodiversity: public banks pitted against international convention

    • Dato Chipashvili

    Europe’s wildlife guardian has sent a warning to Georgia over changes to a protected area in the Caucasus mountains. International lenders are interested in financing hydro developments in the region.

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    19.09.2016 hot topic icon

    Monitoring Report on Implementation of Environmental Commitments under Georgia EU Association Agenda 2014-2016

    The EU-Georgia Association Agreement was signed on June 27, 2014. The agreement establishes the framework for cooperation between Georgia and the European Union. Under the agreement, Georgia undertakes to implement reforms

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    29.06.2016 hot topic icon

    Campaign update: Georgian mountain communities consider restoring long abandoned tradition to tackle threats to their land

    • Hugo Charvat

    With hydropower and mining projects encroaching on their lands and livelihoods, Svan communities in Georgia’s northwest consider convening in an ancestral assembly to discuss their course of action. Georgia’s indigenous Svans, an ethnic subgroup in Georgia’s Caucasus mountains with their own language

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    24.05.2016 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. Police special forces were deployed last Friday, 20 May to clear a blockade of an access road leading to the planned Nenskra dam site in Georgia’s northwest.

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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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    22.08.2014 hot topic icon

    Second fatal landslide in Georgian Dariali valley

    • Dato Chipashvili

    While likely not the cause, the EBRD-financed Dariali hydropower plant is being constructed without proper assessment or mitigation of known geological risks. The construction must be halted to avoid further damage.

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