Vlora, known as one of the most beautiful bays in the south-eastern Adriatic and renamed "the Queen of Albania" has been sentenced to death. In 2004, the Albanian government has approved the largest investment in history: an industrial park of 560 acres to be built near the beach, on a pine forest and national park near the lagoon Narta, also protected under the Ramsar Convention on wetlands.
The EIB, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and World Bank have offered to finance the project despite the devastating impact that it acts on a single site, such as the Bay of Vlora. The project includes seven facilities for the storage and transmission of oil, a refinery, a thermoelectric power plant for the conversion of the gas conversion. The construction of terminal storage of hydrocarbons was naturally entrusted to an Italian company "The Italian-Romanian oil", rather with an agreement beneficial to businessmen close to the Italian environment Arcore, which provides an exclusive dealership for 30 years with right of renewal for an investment of 12 million.
In 2005, associations and citizens have joined together to form the Alliance for Protection of Vlora Bay "and have quoted the Albanian government for violating Aharus Convention (Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation Decision-making Access to Justice in Environmental Matters).
Following a long investigation and articulate, March 23, 2007, the Commission appeals the Aarhus Convention has declared the Albanian government responsible for not acting in accordance with the principles of the Convention. During these two years the NGO coalition has tried to converse with the EBRD and the World Bank asking to freeze their lending until the Committee had not completed the investigative work. The dialogue with the two institutions has not led to anything and the EBRD has provided to deliver a first tranche of funding.
On April 30, 2007, the Alliance has submitted a request for assistance from the World Bank's inspection teams. Dell'elegibilità After examining the appeal, the request was granted July 18, 2007.
This October, an international delegation of activists will travel to Vlora
to give visibility to each other and to support organizations that Albanians are fighting to save the bay.
The EIB, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and World Bank have offered to finance the project despite the devastating impact that it acts on a single site, such as the Bay of Vlora. The project includes seven facilities for the storage and transmission of oil, a refinery, a thermoelectric power plant for the conversion of the gas conversion. The construction of terminal storage of hydrocarbons was naturally entrusted to an Italian company "The Italian-Romanian oil", rather with an agreement beneficial to businessmen close to the Italian environment Arcore, which provides an exclusive dealership for 30 years with right of renewal for an investment of 12 million.
In 2005, associations and citizens have joined together to form the Alliance for Protection of Vlora Bay "and have quoted the Albanian government for violating Aharus Convention (Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation Decision-making Access to Justice in Environmental Matters).
Following a long investigation and articulate, March 23, 2007, the Commission appeals the Aarhus Convention has declared the Albanian government responsible for not acting in accordance with the principles of the Convention. During these two years the NGO coalition has tried to converse with the EBRD and the World Bank asking to freeze their lending until the Committee had not completed the investigative work. The dialogue with the two institutions has not led to anything and the EBRD has provided to deliver a first tranche of funding.
On April 30, 2007, the Alliance has submitted a request for assistance from the World Bank's inspection teams. Dell'elegibilità After examining the appeal, the request was granted July 18, 2007.
This October, an international delegation of activists will travel to Vlora
to give visibility to each other and to support organizations that Albanians are fighting to save the bay.
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