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    30.06.2021 hot topic icon

    The role of traditional rituals in resisting energy injustice: The case of hydropower developments in Svaneti, Georgia

    • Kety Gujaraidze
    • Nino Antadze

    The study intervenes in the energy justice literature by bringing to the foreground the local, emplaced, and bottom-up perspective

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    12.07.2019 hot topic icon

    Ahead of Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank meeting in Luxembourg, over 89 000 petition bank to drop Nenskra dam project in Georgia

    Luxembourg, Prague, Tbilisi – Representatives from the “Stop Nenskra” campaign [1] showed up in Luxembourg at the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) annual meeting on July 12th and delivered a petition

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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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    27.03.2019 hot topic icon

    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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    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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    19.06.2017 hot topic icon

    Women and hydropower: exacerbating vulnerability without resettlement

    • Manana Kochladze

    The disproportionate impacts that the Nenskra hydropower project in Georgia will have on women are not being assessed by the project company, in spite of its financiers’ standards.

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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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    20.02.2017 hot topic icon

    Don’t Dam the rivers

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    07.07.2016 hot topic icon

    New mudflow hits Georgian village as rainy season reveals poor assessment of hydropower plans

    • Dato Chipashvili

    As rains cause mudflows in Georgia's mountains, locals from different regions unite to protest hydropower developments in geologically unstable areas. In the night of June 30, strong mudflow hit the village of Nakra in Upper Svaneti, in Georgia’s Caucasus mountains, damaging several properties and destroying two bridges.

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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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    06.06.2014 hot topic icon

    Will Georgia go green after EU association agreement?

    • Dato Chipashvili

    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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    14.03.2014 hot topic icon

    Georgian Ministry of Energy orders use of force against local protesters who fear landslides from hydro construction

    • Dato Chipashvili

    Last weekend, the Georgian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources again left no doubt about where its main interests lie: enforcing the massive exploitation of Georgia’s hydropower potential despite and against people’s concerns and if necessary by use of force.

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