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    08.04.2021 hot topic icon

    Organizations Working on Namakhvani HPP Issues Respond to Defamation Campaign of the Company and the State

    We, the Social Justice Center (formerly EMC), Green Alternative, and Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association (GYLA), are deeply concerned over the fact that in response to our criticism, regarding fundamental violations committed during the implementation of the Namakhvani HPP project

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    17.09.2020 hot topic icon

    The never ending saga of the Nenskra HPP

    • Manana Kochladze

    The Nenskra HPP is one of 35 hydropower plants slated for development in Upper Svaneti, a region roughly one-and-a-half times the size of Luxembourg.

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    09.09.2020 hot topic icon

    Georgia’s billion dollar dam violates international standards

    Significant failures were found in the project’s compliance with the environmental and social policies of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB)

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    17.04.2020 hot topic icon

    Fears revive in the villages of Shuakhevi as one of Georgia’s biggest hydropower plants starts operation

    Georgia’s Shuakhevi hydropower plant (HPP), which once promised to bring energy independence to the country but collapsed soon after becoming operational in 2017, has come back to life. But its return has not been welcome

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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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    21.04.2019 hot topic icon

    Human Rights Organization&'s response to the use of police forces in Pankisi Gorge

    The signatory organizations express the deep concern regarding the critical situation created in Pankisi Gorge related to the cascade construction of HPPs and call the government of Georgia to immediately cease the demonstration

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    15.11.2018 hot topic icon

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

    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

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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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    30.04.2018 hot topic icon

    New wave of protests against the Nenskra dam

    On April 21, around 200 people went on a protest in Chuberi to once again oppose the construction of the Nenskra dam and to demand their indigenous status that grants a higher level of safeguards

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    04.12.2017 hot topic icon

    Nenskra HPP poses possible threat to Georgian biodiversity hot spot

    In January 2016 the Georgian government decided to exclude from the Bern Convention’s candidate Emerald Site “Svaneti 1” all territories that are part of the valleys of the Nenskra and Nakra rivers which are relevant for the construction of the Nenksra hydro power plant (HPP)

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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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