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Energy provider „Verbund”: Too much electricity in Europe – not the time for new hydropower plants

Mar 10, 2016 /

Europe’s biggest hydropower corporation – the Austrian Verbund AG, is complaining about too much electricity on the European market. Particularly wind power and the expansion of solar power results in an oversupply of energy on the market leading to declining prices for producer.

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Justice for Berta Cáceres – Pull out of Agua Zarca Dam

Mar 09, 2016 /

In a petition, International Rivers calls upon the financiers and builders (FMO, Finnfund, CABEI and Voith-Siemens) of the Agua Zarca Dam in Honduras to pull out of the project. On March 2, Berta Cáceres was brutally murdered for her opposition against the dam project. Sign the petition!

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Goldman Prize 2015 winner Berta Caceres murdered © Oele Schmidt

Anti-dam activist Berta Caceres assassinated

Mar 03, 2016 /

Last night, anti-dam acitivist Berta Caceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. The indigenous rights campaigner received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for her commitment and courage in the fight against the Agua Zarca Dam which would displace hundreds.

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Petition: Stop HPPs on Valbona River!

Feb 09, 2016 /

Another Albanian river at risk: the beautiful Valbona river is facing the construction of several planned hydropower plants along its course, not stopping at national parks and other strictly protected area - as so often the case. Local communities are protesting and need your help: please sign and share the petition addressed to Prime Minister Edi Rama!

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Invitation to the River Film Festival Berlin: Great cinema for wild rivers

Jan 19, 2016 /

Between January 22 and 24, the first “River Film Festival Berlin” takes place in the Moviemento Cinema in the Kreuzberg district. Riverwatch stands in connection with two selected films of the festival: “Damocracy” und “One for the River: The Vjosa Story”

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New hope for Balkan Rivers: World Bank drops funding for hydropower project in Mavrovo National Park in Macedonia

Dec 22, 2015 /

++ Other financiers must follow suit ++ The World Bank withdrew its funding for one of the two big hydropower projects inside MavrovoNational Park in Macedonia.

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Info graphics and photo story about Balkan Rivers

Dec 15, 2015 /

A new study, that Bankwatch published on December 11 deals with European public funding and EU companies, which are fuelling a wave of hydropower development and endangering pristine river environments in the Balkans: Pristine Balkan rivers threatened by European "green energy" funding for hydropower. In addition, a wonderful photo story gives you a vivid impression of the issue: Troubled beauty

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Ancient city of Hasankeyf in Turkey among the 14 most endangered heritage sites in Europe

Dec 14, 2015 /

Press release by Europa Nostra, European Investment Bank Institute and Cultural Awareness Foundation : Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage organisation, and the European Investment Bank Institute announce today the 14 monuments and sites shortlisted for ‘The 7 Most Endangered’ programme 2016 by an international panel of experts in various fields.

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New Bankwatch study: European “green energy” funding for hydropower threatens pristine Balkan rivers

Dec 14, 2015 /

A wave of hydropower development fuelled by European public funding and EU companies is endangering pristine river environments in the Balkans, finds a new study by CEE Bankwatch Network released today. The extensive analysis shows that multilateral development banks are playing a key role.

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The Mavrovo National Park is the last known area, in which the critically endangered Balkan Lynx is reproducing © Jörg Pukownik

Stage win for nature protection: Bern Convention demands provisional stop for the construction of HPPs in Mavrovo NP in Macedonia

Dec 07, 2015 /

++ EBRD and World Bank shall withdraw from projects – further assessment requested ++ For the time being, no hydropower projects are to be built in Mavrovo National Park in Macedonia. This was decided at the meeting of the Bern Convention Standing Committee – Europe’s most important nature convention – in Strasbourg last Friday (December 4, 2015)

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Rivers unite, dams divide

Energy provider „Verbund”: Too much electricity in Europe – not the time for new hydropower plants

Justice for Berta Cáceres – Pull out of Agua Zarca Dam

Anti-dam activist Berta Caceres assassinated

Petition: Stop HPPs on Valbona River!

Invitation to the River Film Festival Berlin: Great cinema for wild rivers

New hope for Balkan Rivers: World Bank drops funding for hydropower project in Mavrovo National Park in Macedonia

Info graphics and photo story about Balkan Rivers

Ancient city of Hasankeyf in Turkey among the 14 most endangered heritage sites in Europe

New Bankwatch study: European “green energy” funding for hydropower threatens pristine Balkan rivers

Stage win for nature protection: Bern Convention demands provisional stop for the construction of HPPs in Mavrovo NP in Macedonia

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