ECA Watch Austria and WWF Austria strongly critizised today Andritz' decision to continue their involvement with the Ilisu project on the Tigris river in south-eastern Turkey, and emphasized that such a decision will not go without consequences. The explanations of Andritz-CEO Wolfgang Leitner contradict reality and are nothing but a sequence of skewed facts, say project critics. The company’s decision is also a slap in the face for Germany, Austria and Switzerland’s governments, who withdrew from the project in July 2009 because of its vast impacts and its breach of international standards.

“’Ilisu’ is not built yet and resistance against the project continues. Such greed for profit should not be rewarded. Those who profit from the destruction of ancient…read more

According to information from the 'Initiative to keep Hasankeyf alive', the inhabitants of Ilisu village are to be resettled in two months time. It has now become clear that this will threaten their material existence; they will have to pay 50,000 Turkish Lira (ca. 25,000 Euro) more for their new…read more

The Austrian company Andritz AG will be the only European company to remain within the controversial Ilisu dam project on the Tigris River in south-eastern Turkey. Alstom (FR/CH) and Züblin (D/AUT), who were also supposed to be involved in the construction of the dam, have now finally…read more