Montenegro finally scraps bids for Briska Gora solar power project
The Briska Gora project is also controversial due to its potential adverse impact on biodiversity and cultural heritage
Montenegro announces coal phaseout by 2035
Montenegro has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, announcing it will stop using coal by 2035 at the latest.
TPP Pljevlja uses its 20,000 hours production limit – European Environment Agency
The EEA has officially confirmed that the power plant, part of utility EPCG, consumed its limit for production at the end of 2020.
Montenegro to let people decide on offshore oil after exploratory drilling
After environmentalists protested and a warning from auditors, the Government of Montenegro said oil can be discussed only after exploratory drilling
Environmentalists alert UNESCO of ‘ecocide’ of Tara river in Montenegro
Activists in Montenegro informed UNESCO of the destruction of wildlife in the Tara, a world heritage site, and suggested construction material is being discharged into the river during the construction of small hydropower plants and a highway. Most of Tara river’s flow through Montenegro has become muddy from thousands of tons of gravel, soil and […]
Our health depends on nature’s health – on May 22 world marks its biodiversity day
The slogan for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020 is “Our solutions are in nature” and it will be marked only online. The emphasis is on human health and how much it depends on biodiversity, with increasing evidence that imbalances in ecosystems increase the risk of diseases like the one caused by the coronavirus. […]
Towns in BiH, Montenegro, Albania join forces against marine litter
The Declaration of Ulcinj on the Prevention of Marine Litter has been signed by heads of five municipalities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro within a project implemented by GIZ. Integrated waste management and marine litter prevention are the essence of the Declaration of Ulcinj. Mayors of Finiq and Lezha in Albania, Neum and […]
Montenegro to scrutinize small hydropower procedures, not to approve fresh subsidies
Representatives of the Government of Montenegro have announced that procedures for the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) will be reviewed and that no subsidies will be approved for the construction of new SHPPs, local media reported. Even though Prime Minister Duško Marković has made it clear that he believes the issue of small hydropower […]
