This report examines the biotech industry’s corporate lobby power and its access to one of the key EU institutions, the European Commission. It focuses on one of the key biotech lobby groups – EuropaBio – and recent examples of the cosy relationship between the companies who stand to make considerable profits from agricultural biotechnology, and …
Kashagan oil field development
Toxic chemicals linked to development of the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan are polluting the Caspian Sea environment and damaging the health and livelihoods of local communities.
Hellfire Economics
Multinational companies and the contract dispute over Kashagan, the world’s largest undeveloped oilfield.
Who benefits from gm crops? The rise in pesticide use
As in past editions of “Who Benefits from GM Crops?” we here provide a fact-based assessment of GM crops around the world, and address common misconceptions about their impacts. In this 2008 edition, we report on new trends and findings, particularly the rise in pesticide use with GM crops.
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Completing the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia – Reactors from the 70’s for the 21st Century
The Italian-Slovak utility Enel/SE and the Slovak government are speeding up the completion of Mochovce Units 3 and 4. When it comes to nuclear safety of these VVER 440/V213 units, there is conflicting information as to which standard is to be applied. Available in English, German and Dutch.
Cohesion or Collision? – EU and EIB funding for controversial projects in Central and Eastern Europe
A map detailing 50 environmentally damaging and economically dubious infrastructure projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on the most extensive investigation to date, the map shows controversial projects with a total cost of EUR 22 billion. The projects are either already financed, or planned to be financed, by EU structural and cohesion funds and/or …
