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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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 to build Georgia’s biggest and most divisive hydropower project. According to South Korean media, Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) and Limak have won a USD 737 million tender to realize the Nenskra project.
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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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Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park protection campaign in Regards with the “Black Sea Regional Transmission“ Project
On November 19, at 3pm at the Open Society Georgia Foundation office a meeting/press conference of the Green Alternative and Coalition “Transparent Foreign Aid to Georgia“ will be conducted within the scope of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
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Oil addicts find new veins as BTC pipeline finally opens
The day before state dignitaries, oil men and bankers from around the world gather for the grand launch party in Turkey of BP's more than one year delayed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, campaigners who have monitored
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BTC pipeline scrutiny intensifies as problems increase
Tbilisi (Georgia)/London (UK) Six weeks before the official opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline on October 27, campaigners from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the UK and Germany are launching the next phase
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Political comfort for all. As crunch time approaches for the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, local groups demand an end to business as usual
Georgian environment group Green Alternative has today written to the executive directors of both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation to express the group's misgivings