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Action Alerts Archive 2005
March
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March
- March 15, 2004
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Call on the EBRD to get its transport policy on the right track
Before the end of this month the Executive Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will approve a new transport policy which will guide the bank's transport lending for the next four years. Your assistance and support is needed to call on the EBRD to commit to far more sustainable transport projects.
The EBRD's new transport policy will have a significant impact on central and eastern European citizens . Transport investments account for around EUR 3 billion or roughly 14 percent of the EBRD's business. (read more) |
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March
- March 8, 2004
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Death threat issued to a Bulgarian anti-nuke activist
Several days ago, Albena Simeonova, a Goldman prize winner and one of the leading opponents of the controversial Belene nuclear power plant (Belene NPP) in Bulgaria, received a death threat which insisted that she must give up her resistance against Belene or face the consequences.
Bankwatch works closely with Albena Simeonova in Bulgaria through the national coalition of "BeleNE NPP!" (No Belene NPP), the driving force behind the resistance to Belene. The coalition maintains that the Bulgarian government has failed to provide persuasive arguments, not to mention rigorous financial and environmental analyses, in favour of the construction of two blocks at the Belene NPP. (read
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Albena Simeonova, a Bulgarian activist and a Goldman Prize winner, has received a death threat because of her opposition to the controversial Belene nuclear power project.
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January
- January 25, 2004
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Show Solidarity With Sakhalin Indigenous People!
On January 20, the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East took direct action, and demanded that the oil companies behind the massive Sakhalin I and II oil and gas projects address their concerns. About 40 protesters blocked the entrance to ExxonMobil's shoreline production complex on Sakhalin's Chaivo Bay in a tense stand-off. Almost a week on, and with the action still continuing, the protesters need the solidarity of the world community. (read
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| Indigenous people protest against threats that Sakhalin II construction poses to their livehoods. |
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