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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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    11.09.2020 hot topic icon

    Georgia’s billion dollar dam violates international standards

    • Dato Chipashvili
    • Rusudan Panozishvili

    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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    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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    31.10.2018 hot topic icon

    Controversial dam project in Georgia abandoned by constructor

    Already mired by controversy, the billion dollar Nenskra hydropower plant is now facing another major hurdle as the company contracted to realize the project is now leaving it

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    25.06.2018 hot topic icon

    Nenskra Hydro Project-Update

    • Dato Chipashvili

    The Asian Infrastracture Investment Bank is considering a non-sovereign loan of USD 100 million1 for a 280 MW reservoir-type hydropower plant, located in the Nenskra and Nakra valleys of Northwest Georgia

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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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    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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    12.09.2017 hot topic icon

    Failing local communities, Report on the Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for the Nenskra Hydropower Project

    A field investigation conducted by CEE Bankwatch Network in the Nenskra and Nakra valleys in Upper Svaneti in Georgia during two visits in July 2017 has found direct evidence that the Land Acquisition and Livelihood Restoration Plan (LALRP) developed by JSC Nenkra Hydro

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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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    09.09.2016 hot topic icon

    Updated briefing paper on Nenskra Hydropower Plant project

    The Asian Develoment Bank (ADB) together with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is in the process of assessing a loan for the 280 megawatt Nenskra hydropower plant (HPP) in the Svaneti region of Georgia.

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    27.06.2016 hot topic icon

    New damage to hydropower project a bleak reminder of development bank missteps in Georgia

    • Dato Chipashvili

    On June 23 mudflows from the Devdoraki glacier again hit the Dariali gorge and washed away a road and infrastructure connected to two hydropower projects planned in the north of Georgia. The destruction included the water intake for the 19 megawatt Larsi hydropower plant and the derivation pipes for the Dariali hydropower plant.

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