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

Building Slovakia's Mochovce 3 and 4 nuclear reactors is the longest running nuclear construction project anywhere in Europe. The reactors were designed by the Soviet Union back in the 1970s. Construction began back in 1987…

- international - | Cluster Munitions producers | arms | active file

Cluster munitions pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and after a conflict. Cluster munitions are designed to blanket a large area containing one or more targets. They can be fired by artillery and rocket…

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…

Brazil | Angra 3 nuclear power plant | energy plants, nuclear | active file

Brazil's Angra 3 is designed to be a twin of the country's Angra 2 reactor. Let's hope Angra 3 turns out a little better than its sibling which was commissioned in October 2000, 25 years after the start of construction and…

Brazil | Belo Monte dam project | dams | active file

The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River is currently the largest dam project under consideration anywhere on the planet, and would be the world’s third largest in installed generating capacity if built. Belo Monte is…

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 nineteen eighties,…

Canada | Canadian Tar Sands | oil and gas | active file

In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil, but getting to it will mean destroying an area…

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,…

Congo | Tar Sands | oil and gas | active file

Oil sands are a mixture of bitumen and sand. Oil sands production is a carbon-intensive process because it is a hugely inefficient way of extracting and refining the oil. For surface deposits, sixty foot tall excavators…

Ethiopia | Gibe III Dam | dams | active file

The Omo River is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in southwest Ethiopia and northern Kenya. In the Lower Omo Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an estimated 500,000 farmers, fishers and herders…

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…

India | Bauxite mine Niyamgiri Hills | mining | active file

On October 5th, 2004 an official agreement was signed between the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, for the purpose of mining of bauxite reserves at at the foot…

India | Mining in Goa/ Sesa Goa | mining | active file

Sesa Goa is the largest iron ore producer and exporter of Goa. Since 2007 Vedanta Resources is the majority shareholder of Sesa Goa. Sesa Goa's main mining operations are at Codli and Sonshi. Sesa Goa also has other mining…

Indonesia | Toka Tindung Goldmine | gold, mining | active file

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…

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 effect 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…

Lithuania | Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant | energy plants, nuclear | active file

Visaginas is the atomic phoenix the Lithuanian government hopes will rise from the ashes of the Ignalina nuclear power plant. Ignalina was finally closed in 2009 for safety reasons as a condition of Lithuania being admitted…

Malawi | Kayelekera Uranium mine | mining | active file

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.…

Myanmar | Shwe Gas and Pipelines Projects | oil and gas, pipelines | active file

The ‘Shwe' (meaning ‘golden' in Burmese) projects entail exploitation of underwater natural gas deposits off the coast of western Burma's Arakan State and dual oil and gas pipelines that will transport this gas…

Papua New Guinea | LNG Project | Gas supplier | active file

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been chilled to liquid form, reducing it to one-six-hundredth of its original volume for transportation by ship to destinations not connected by pipeline. The PNG LNG project…

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

The plans to build Romania's Cernavod? nuclear power plant are old - they were part of an energy policy devised by the dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu who was deposed in 1989 and wanted to build five reactors. The Cernavod? 3…

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…

Russian Federation | Uralchem | agriculture, food, chemicals, Nuclear Waste management | active file

Uralchem is a Russian chemical fertilizer corporation. It brings together several chemical plants and other subsidiary enterprises associated with gross environmental and human rights misconduct, including covering up fatal…

Sweden | Markbygden Windpower project | Windpower | active file

In May 2008, Markbygden Vind AB, applied for permission to build and operate a large-scale wind-power plant in Markbygden, Pitea Municipality in Sweden. The application concerns an area of approximately 450 km2. The Markbygden…

Turkey | Ilisu Dam | 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

Mountaintop removal mining is a form of strip mining in which coal companies use explosives to blast as much as 800 to 1000 feet off the tops of mountains order to reach the coal seams that lie underneath. The resulting…

United States | Pebble gold-copper mine | mining | active file

Anglo American and its Canadian partner Northern Dynasty formed the Pebble Limited Partnership in 2007 to develop a massive copper and gold mine - the Pebble Project - in southwest Alaska.  The mine is proposed for…

Viet Nam | Buon Kuop Hydroelectric Project | energy plants, hydroelectric | active file

The Srepok River is a 400 km tributary of the Mekong River, which originates in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and then flows into Cambodia's provinces of Mondulkiri, Ratanakiri and Stung Treng where it merges into the…

Zambia | Konkola Copper Mines | mining | active file

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is Zambia's largest copper producing mine and is majority-owned by Vedanta Resources. Vedanta bought KCM from Anglo American in 2004. Since then, Vedanta have overseen a scaling up in its operations…

- 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.

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…

Ecuador | Block 31, Yasuni National Park | 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…

Indonesia | Grasberg Mine | mining | on record

The Grasberg mine located in Papua, on the island New Guinea, just north of Australia, is being run by the mining company Freeport McMoran. The Grasberg mine is the biggest goldmine and the third biggest coppermine in the…

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…

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…

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 | 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…