environmental impact

Montenegrin state power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has signed an agreement worth over EUR 54 million on an environmental overhaul of its coal-fired thermal power plant (TPP) Pljevlja, a…

The Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning is working on national zoning plans for eight wind farms as part of efforts to increase the share of energy produced from…

A working group comprising representatives of various institutions and both political entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with technical support from GIZ, has produced a Draft catalog of criteria for a…

Beogradski Metro i Voz, a company set up to operate Belgrade’s future metro, has launched fresh tendering to produce an environmental impact study for the Serbian capital’s two planned metro…

The Slovenian government has halted preparations to produce a national spatial plan (DPN) for the Hrastje-Mota hydropower plant (HPP), the first that was planned on the Mura river. Numerous NGOs,…

In February, our readers in English decided our most interesting read was an interview with Zoran Obradović, managing director at wpd Adria. The other two articles on our Top 3…

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is organizing a public consultation on its good governance policies – the Environment and Social Policy, the Public Information Policy, and the…

The City of Banja Luka has rejected an initiative for the construction of the Krupa hydropower plant (HPP) on the Vrbas river, as it was not backed by an environmental…

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has vetoed changes to the corporate income tax law introducing higher taxes on older cars in a push to tackle air pollution in the country. According…

The first-instance Administrative Court in Tirana has upheld the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy’s decision to scrap HP Bigas dhe Veleshnje Energy’s projects to build two HPPs in Albania’s grand…

Some 300,000 turbine blades have already been dumped in EU landfills, with 40,000 more generated by the wind industry every year. Blades, but also boats, planes, and cars, are manufactured…

Croatia’s state power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) has been given a go-ahead by the Environmental Protection and Energy Ministry for a project to build the HES Kosinj hydropower complex, and…