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,…

- 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

Angra-3 is a 1,400MWe PWR nuclear reactor designed to be a twin of the Angra-2 reactor. Construction was halted in the mid 1980s due to shortages of finance. Around 70% of equipment is already on site, a coastal location…

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…

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…

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

On 31 December 2009, Lithuania closed the second block of the Ignalina nuclear power station in the North East edge of Lithuania on the shore of Lake Druksiai, 8 km from the Latvian border, and 3,5 km from the Belarussian…

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 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…

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…

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/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…

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…

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…