CategoriesPress Release++International team of scientists finds 300 species in just one week, including a new type of fish and insect++ Sediment transport could reduce power production at the Pocem hydropower plant to the point of stopping it for 25-30 years++ Tirana, Vienna, Radolfzell; September 19, 2017. In April of this year, about 30 scientists from 4 […]
CategoriesIn MediaThe Albanian government has canceled the works of the Kalivaçi hydropower plant by the company Kalivaçi Green Energy of the Italian businessman Becchetti, however the Ministry of Energy and Industry has immediately started the procedures to find a new investor in Kalivaç. The last wild river in Europe, the Vjosa, is currently flowing free of […]
CategoriesPress Release++The Albanian government opens the procedure for the concession of the HPP of Kalivaci++NGOs oppose this decision++ Tirana, Vienna, Radofzell. After 20 years of delay and postponement of works, the Albanian Government decided to cancel the contract with the Italian company Kalivaçi Green Energy for the unfinished Kalivaçi hydropower plant in Vjosë. Immediately, the Ministry […]
CategoriesPress Release++ Success for nature conservation and affected residents ++ Tirana, May 3, 2017. Big win for the protection of Europe’s last big wild river, the Vjosa in Albania! Yesterday afternoon, the judges of the Albanian Administrative Court in Tirana announced their decision against the construction of the projected hydropower plant “Poçem”: for the time being, the dam must […]
CategoriesIn MediaVery few Albanians are aware that Vjosa, the largest river of southern Albania, is the last river in Europe, which, until now, has not changed its course”, says Professor Fridrich Shiemer, famous ecologist from the University of Vienna. 30 Albanian and foreign experts from Austria, Germany, Slovenia have gathered to study the Vjoses river for […]
CategoriesActivitiesAn initiative previously unheard of in Europe will be undertaken by more than 30 scientists from Albania, Austria and Germany, who will conduct scientific research in Vjosa for a week, focusing on the area where the Pocem HPP is planned to be built. . With this activity, scientists want to highlight the expected negative effects […]
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