Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is suing anti-nuclear activists in its latest attempt to stifle public debate over the country's ageing fleet of 15 nuclear reactors, while refusing to release information in breach of international obligations.
… Ukraine sues anti-nuclear campaigners The Ecologist | 28th August 2015 News Ukraine Energy Nuclear Human Rights EU Finance sunpp-cut.jpg Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is …
Taxpayer-financed development banks have lent €500 million to Ukraine's biggest agribusiness company so it can undercut EU chicken producers, writes Fidanka Bacheva McGrath - while polluting the environment and grabbing land from local farmers.
… EU taxpayers finance Ukraine's 'chicken oligarch' Fidanka Bacheva … CEE Bankwatch | 17th September 2015 News Ukraine EU Farming Land Grabs Finance … development banks have lent €500 million to Ukraine's biggest agribusiness company so it …
Over a year after violent conflict began in East Ukraine, indications are emerging of its severe environmental impacts in the highly industrialised Donbas region, and the grave health risks to civilians that will endure long into the future. The area will need international assistance both to reduce the hazards, and to 'green' the region's often polluting industries.
… Ukraine war leaves a long shadow of pollution, … | 24th May 2015 News Was Pollution Health Ukraine kiev-fire-cut.jpg Over a year after violent conflict began in East Ukraine, indications are emerging of its …
With Japan's nuclear catastrophe still far from resolved, Dr Paul Dorfman argues why nuclear remains 'economically unreliable' and why it will be the taxpayer who ends up being liable as well as facing all the risks
… risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, … controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry …
As Russia looks like extending its dominion into Crimea and East Ukraine, Ola Cichowlas finds that Vladimir Putin cares rather less about the the heart of Russia itself - places like Berezniki, the country's very own chemical alley.
… extending its dominion into Crimea and East Ukraine, Ola Cichowlas finds that Vladimir …
A legal principle dating from Roman times is ripe for use in protecting our waste-filled and over-exploited seas and oceans, writes Deb Wright. Under the 'Public Trust Doctrine' governments are entrusted to protect shared natural resources from abuse, and can be held accountable for neglect of their duties.
… States and also in the Philippines, the Ukraine, Uganda and the Netherlands. Although …
While mainstream media promulgate a fictitious message of Russian threats in the Baltic, Vladimir Putin's next big play lies far to the south, writes Oliver Tickell. The gross intransigence of the EU, the IMF, the European Central Bank and Germany are forcing Greece into a powerful new economic and energy alliance with Russia that will reshape Europe - and for the better.
… see a re-run of important elements of the Ukraine play of December 2013, when Russia … which it would buy $15 billion in bonds from Ukraine, supporting its collapsing currency, …
Who has the longest nose of them all? Worthy winners of France's fiercely contested 'Prix Pinocchio' 2014 were selected last night, recognising corporate greed, hypocrisy and malfeasance, based on a record vote since the awards began.
… the ground, particularly in Argentina and the Ukraine, is quite different. In these …
The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. The fracking industry is vicious, brutal and will stop at nothing to get its way. British anti-frackers can celebrate yesterday's achievements - but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
… crisis - like the gas cut-offs in Ukraine - to push through massive export plans …
Before rushing to finance projects in Africa and the Middle East, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should address its environmental and social lending criteria, says Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath
… ArcelorMittal operations in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and most …
The magnitude of Corbyn's victory today represents an irreversible seismic shift in British politics, writes Oliver Tickell. Finally the Tories face serious, principled opposition that will reveal them as the far-right ideologues they truly are. The reverberations will echo far, wide, long and deep, including to the US where the socialist Bernie Sanders is well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination.
… whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine or elsewhere; unquestioning support …
Efforts to clean up the Jukskei River are to be applauded but fall far short of what's really needed to return it to the former glory so many Johannesburg residents still remember writes LELYZAVETA IVANOVA
… a 20-year-old biology graduate, born in the Ukraine but now living in Johannesburg WITNESS …
Almost entirely unknown to the outside world, and even to most local residents, hundreds of square kilometres of South Africa's Karoo dryland have been bought up by uranium mining companies, writes Dr Stefan Cramer. With no strategic assessment of the industry's devastating impacts and massive water demand, official permission could soon be granted for vast open pit mines.
… from East Germany, today from Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Today, however, both countries are …
Sanctions against Russian natural resource tycoons could be good for the environment, writes eco-campaigner Konstantin Rubakhin - if only they would target the right people. But so far, the EU has been turning a blind eye to powerful Kremlin insiders with an open licence to pollute and destroy.
… criminal scandals, weapons trading, deals in Ukraine with the Yanukovych family; and the …
On Monday the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that, in tandem with other Bank initiatives, is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
… the Philippines, Rwanda, Spain, Uganda, and Ukraine. "Not only does the Bank ignore …
Trump's nationalist, populist and anti-science rhetoric on fracking has shifted the debate to the right, endangering the environment and public health.
… pursuit of becoming energy independent from Ukraine but its fracking operations are nearly …
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout, writes Justin Wedes. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help!
… If the disaster of Detroit had happened in Ukraine, or Israel, or Afghanistan, or Egypt, …
The nuclear industry and its supporters have contrived a variety of narratives to justify and explain away nuclear catastrophes, writes John Downer. None of them actually hold water, yet they serve their purpose - to command political and media heights, and reassure public sentiment on 'safety'. But if it's so safe, why the low limits on nuclear liabilities?
… belong to Belarus - it is in what is now the Ukraine. The nuclear disaster liability …