Slovakia | Mochovce nuclear units 3&4 | energy plants, nuclear | active file

The Mochovce nuclear power plant is located in the south of the Slovak Republic, 100 km from the capital Bratislava and 150 km from Vienna, Austria. It has two operating VVER 440/V213 units, a Soviet Generation II reactor,…

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Australia | Gunns pulp mill proposal Tasmania | forestry, pulp and paper | active file

Gunns Limited, an Australian logging giant, is planning to build a AUS$ 2.2 billion native forest based, chlorine-bleaching pulp mill in Tasmania, Australia. The pulp mill is currently one of the most controversial issues…

Bangladesh | Phulbari coal mine | mining | active file

The Phulbari coal project is a proposed open pit coal mine in northwest Bangladesh and includes the construction of at least one 500-MW power plant. At full production about eight million tons of coal will be transported…

Brazil | Rio Madeira dam project | dams | active file

Located in the state of Rondônia - Brazil, the Madeira River is the principal tributary of the Amazon River, with its basin covering about one-quarter of the Brazilian Amazon. The Madeira River project consists of…

Bulgaria | Belene nuclear power plant | energy plants, nuclear | active file

The Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) is planned to be sited at the bank of the Danube River, which forms the border between Bulgaria and Romania. Technical design and construction works first started in the eighties, but…

Canada | Oil sands | oil and gas | active file

Financing the expansion of oil / tar sands extraction in Alberta Canada. The industry has announced C$125 billion of projects by 2015. Smaller operators are raising capital to fund project development. Multinationals are…

Chile | Patagonia Dams: HidroAysén | dams | active file

HidroAysén - owned by European company Endesa and Chilean company Colbun - plans to dam two of Chile's most powerful and pristine rivers, the Baker and Pascua Rivers. Electricity from these dams would be sent more…

China | Asia Pulp and Paper | forestry, pulp and paper | active file

Asia Pulp & Paper is one of the biggest pulp & paper producers in Asia, with operations in Indonesia and southern China. It's total pulp production capacity in both countries now amounts to 3.3 million tons per year,…

Gabon | Belinga iron ore project | dams, mining, transport and infrastructure | active file

The Belinga iron ore deposit is located 500km east of Gabon’s coastal capital of Libreville, and is expected to produce some 30 million tons of iron ore annually.  The project is the country's largest investment…

Kazakhstan | Kashagan oil project | oil and gas | active file

An offshore oil project in the north Caspian Sea, Kashagan is part of the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), a 40-year contract that was signed in 1997 and includes the development of 11 offshore blocks.…

Laos | Theun-Hinboun expansion project | dams | active file

If built, the Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project would displace up to 4,800 people and affect another 48,441 people living downstream on project construction lands and in host villages. The project involves a 65-meter high…

Laos | Nam Theun 2 | dams | active file

The US$1.45 billion Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, in the small Southeast Asia country of Laos, is supposed to generate revenue for the cash-strapped Lao government by exporting power to neighboring Thailand. The project…

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Romania | Cernavoda nuclear units 3 & 4 | energy plants, nuclear | active file

The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavoda (Romanian: Centrala Nucleara de la Cernavoda) is the only nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU 6 reactor technology from…

Russian Federation | Sakhalin II oil and gas project | oil and gas | active file

The Sakhalin II project in the Russian Far East is said by project sponsors to be the largest integrated oil and gas project in the world.  The project  involves three offshore oil and gas platforms and…

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Turkey | Ilisu Dam project | dams | active file

The 1,200 MW Ilisu dam project is planned on the Tigris River in Southeast Turkey, some 50 km away from the border with Syria and Iraq. A 1,800 m-long wall will form a 313 km2 reservoir. It is part of the Greater Southeast…

United States | Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining | mining | active file

Throughout the Appalachian region of the Eastern United States, hundreds of mountains have been flattened – first by clear-cutting forests, then by blowing off the top layers of rock with powerful explosives. Giant…

- international - | Uranium Weapons | arms | on record

Despite the fact that weapons containing depleted uranium are not widely known, they have been produced and used on a massive scale. The health consequences of these weapons, which also continue after the end of the armed…

- international - | Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline | pipelines | on record

The controversial $4 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey received $2.7 billion of public and private loans.

- international - | Wal-Mart labour rights | | on record

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. The company has an annual turnover of 374 billion US$ and runs thousands of supermarkets in the U.S., under the slogan 'always low prices'.Wal-Mart overtly practices a company…

- international - | Cluster Munitions producers | arms | on record

Although 98% of cluster munitions victims are civilians, cluster munitions producers don’t have any problems attracting capital from financial markets. A research by Netwerk Vlaanderen reveals that sixty-nine financial…

Brazil | Pagrisa Ethanol, the Amazon | agriculture, non food, energy plants, renewables | on record

In July 2007 a Brazilian government anti-slavery taskforce freed 1,108 workers from a sugarcane plantation owned by company Para Pastoril e Agricola, also known as Pagrisa, in the Amazon state of Pará. The workers,…

Brazil | Aracruz pulp mills and plantations | forestry, pulp and paper | on record

Aracruz is the world's largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, with a share of 27% of global production, and it is also Latin America's biggest pulp exporter. The company has three pulp-making plants and produces a…

China | China Datang | energy plants, nuclear, energy, fossil fuel based | on record

China Datang Corporation is one of China's five largest, state-owned power corporations. The company has a subsidiary listed in London and Hong Kong stock exchanges, Datang Power Generation Co. Ltd. China Datang's installed…

Ecuador | Block 31, Yasuni National Park | aviation, energy plants, renewables, fisheries, oil and gas | on record

Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is threatened by planned oil development by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. The oil development will take place in Block 31, two thirds of which is located in Yasuni National Park, one…

Finland | Olkiluoto nuclear reactor 3 | energy plants, nuclear | on record

World’s largest, first-of-a-kind nuclear reactor is being built in Olkiluoto, Finland by the French company Areva. The construction started in 2005 and was the first nuclear plant ordered in developed countries for…

India | Vedanta Resources | mining | on record

Vedanta Resources is a mining company. It produces aluminum, copper, lead and zinc. Vedanta has a strong position in India, where its founder Anil Agarwal was born, but is also active in Zambia, Australia and Armenia. Vedanta…

India | NHPC dams | dams | on record

India's National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has made a name for itself as one of the country's most ruthless corporations. As a state-owned company, NHPC has been able to ignore the conditions set out by India's Environment…

India | Dhamra port | transport and infrastructure | on record

The upcoming Dhamra port in Orissa’s Bhadrak district is a 50:50 joint venture between Larsen & Toubro and TATA Steel. It is located less than 5 km from the Bhitharkanika National Park and less than 15 km. from…

Indonesia | Freeport McMoRan | mining | on record

Freeport McMoran runs the Grasberg mine located in Papua, on the island New Guinea, just north of Australia. The Grasberg mine is the biggest goldmine and the third biggest coppermine in the world. New Guinea is known for…

Indonesia | Mud volcano in Sidoarjo, East Java | oil and gas | on record

The Wunut gas field near Sidoarjo in East Java was discovered in 1994 and has estimated reserves of 25 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in oil and gas. It is exploited under the Brantas natural gas Production Sharing…

Indonesia | Wilmar International | agriculture, food | on record

The Wilmar Group is a large corporate conglomerate with its origins in Indonesia. Its primary activities involve palm oil production, refining and trade. In recent years, the Wilmar Group has rapidly expanded its plantation…

Indonesia | Toka Tindung Goldmine | mining | on record

Toka Tindung is about 35 km north east of Manado, the capital of the Indonesian Province of North Sulawesi. The project entails the development of six open-pit gold mines in a biodiversity hotspot and in close proximity…

Malawi | Kayelekera Uranium mine | mining | on record

The Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Malawi, Central Africa is a project developed by Australian company Paladin Energy Ltd. (formerly Paladin Resources Ltd.) for the first uranium development in the small central African nation.…

Malaysia | Samling | forestry | on record

Credit Suisse of Switzerland, British HSBC and Australia's Macquarie Securities have listed Samling Global Ltd, a Malaysian logging company, on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The sale of shares commenced on 23 February, with…

Myanmar | Sinopec Oil and Gas | oil and gas, pipelines | on record

Sinopec has been actively exploring for oil & gas in Burma, collaborating with the military regime's Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise. Projects under development include: An oil pipeline from Arakan to Yunnan. Sinopec…

Peru | Camisea pipeline project | oil and gas, pipelines | on record

Peru's Camisea gas project was designed to exploit an enormous gas field in the Amazonian region. It consists of 3 components: exploration and extraction at four drilling platforms in the Urubamba Valley (the "Upstream Project"),…

Philippines | Rapu Rapu Copper Mine | mining | on record

The Rapu Rapu Polymetallic Project on Rapu Rapu island in the South East of the Philippines is a open pit mine with a estimated annual production of approximately 11,000 tonnes of copper in concentrates, 13,000 tonnes of…

Romania | Rosia Montana gold mine | mining | on record

Canadian mining junior Gabriel Resources wishes to develop Europe’s largest open-cast cyanide-leach gold mine at Rosia Montana. If ever developed, the mine would result in the involuntary resettlement of over 2000…

Sudan | CNPC in Sudan | oil and gas | on record

The state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is China's largest producer and supplier of crude oil and natural gas, holding a dominant position in domestic petroleum production, processing, and marketing sectors.…

Turkey | Yusufeli dam project | dams | on record

The proposed Yusufeli Dam and Hydro-Electric Power Project is to be located on the Coruh River in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The Yusufeli Dam is the second largest dam within the larger Coruh River Development…

Turkmenistan | Turkmen Bankaccounts | | on record

Deutsche Bank is holding several accounts for the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, in which some of the billions of dollars from Turkmenistan's gas sales are held. Turkmenistan possesses one of the largest natural…

United States | TXU Coal Powered Plants in Texas | | on record

TXU, an energy utility in Texas is seeking to massively expand its operations, which in turn will lead to massive increases in its output of greenhouse gases. The first stage of their expansion plans call for the construction…

United States | Dynegy coal power plants | energy, fossil fuel based | on record

Dynegy LS Power is currently planning to construct more new coal-fired power plants than any other company in the USA, which will result in very large increases in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). GHG emissions contribute…

Uruguay | Botnia pulp and paper mill | pulp and paper | on record

Against massive local resistance, from residents and environmental groups, despite the opposition of the Government of Argentina, and despite an escalating bilateral conflict between two otherwise friendly neighbors caused…