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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Nenskra: new players, new risks
More than a year after Salini Impregilo, a major construction company, mysteriously abandoned the Nenskra hydropower project before construction had even begun, new contractors are now said to have been hired
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Activists take Georgia’s environment ministry to court for green-lighting a mega hydropower project without an up-to-date environmental assessment
In a petition filed on March 19, 2019 with the Tbilisi city court by the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) and Green Alternative, on behalf of local residents in the Upper Svaneti region, the civil society groups
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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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Devastating floods are the latest warning sign about controversial Nenskra hydropower project
From the outside, this tragedy might seem like a natural disaster, a force majeure. But one cannot ignore the human factors at play. Community members in Georgia’s Upper Svaneti region and environmental groups
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Nenskra Hydro Project-Update
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