The role of traditional rituals in resisting energy injustice: The case of hydropower developments in Svaneti, Georgia
The study intervenes in the energy justice literature by bringing to the foreground the local, emplaced, and bottom-up perspective
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Five reasons why EBRD should pull out of the controversial Nenskra hydropower project
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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Five reasons why EBRD should pull out of the controversial Nenskra hydropower project
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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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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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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Collective statement of the Khaishi community regarding the Khudoni HPP
"In February 2016 the Georgian media reported on the announcement of the Technical Director of Transelectrica Limited (a promoter of the Khudoni hydropower plant, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands) that the consultation process
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Social Impacts of Nenskra Dam Georgia
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is in the early stage of assessing a loan for the 280 megawatt Nenskra hydropower plant, which is to be built by a Korean investor in the northwest of Georgia. The project is located on the Nenskra and Nakra rivers
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Green Alternative’s position on the termination of the Khudoni hydropower plant agreement
On 28 April 2011 the Government of Georgia, Trans Electrica Limited, Trans Electrica Limited (Georgia), Energotrans Ltd and Electricity System Commercial Operator signed an agreement on the construction of a 702 MW hydropower plant in Zemo Svaneti
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Will Georgia go green after EU association agreement?
On Friday Georgia will sign an association agreement with the European Union, meaning that our country will start cooperating more closely with the EU and even implement more European legislation. This is good news, particularly
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Will Georgia go green after EU association agreement?
On Friday Georgia will sign an association agreement with the European Union, meaning that our country will start cooperating more closely with the EU and even implement more European legislation. This is good news, particularly when it comes to the environment.
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Russian energy giants and for a mega dam
A campaign run by lobbyists in favour of the Khudoni hydropower project has recently become more and more aggressive. At stake is the reputation of the investor ‘Transelectrica limited,’ as it was unable to fulfill the conditions
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"Fools and liars"- major new report slams mega-dams, as tensions rise over Georgia's Khudoni project
A new report published on March 10 by a team of researchers from the University of Oxford, based on the largest ever study of large hydroelectric dams (245 in 65 countries) has found that in most cases large dams are economically