Environmental management
Bulgaria MPs Required to Submit Only Laws with Impact Assessment
Bulgarian lawmakers on Thursday agreed to procedural rules barring them from submitting bills that have no environmental impact assessment.
In case the draft legislation does not contain such assessment, it will not be sent to parliamentary committees and will therefore not make it further to Parliament's floor.
Ministry blocks power plant in Black Sea province after negative environmental report
After a negative environmental assessment report (ÇED) for a thermal power plant in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, the Environment Ministry has decided not to proceed with the construction of the plant.
Oil and Gas Explorations at Vranino Halted, Await Court Ruling
At present no exploration works are being carried out at the Vranino field in northeastern Bulgaria, as the verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) is awaited.
This was announced by the Minister of Environment and Water Ivelina Vasileva in a response to a question posed to her in Parliament on Friday, electronic daily Dnevnik reports.
Romania ‘Broke Environmental Rules’ in Coal Expansion
The European Commission opened the case because it said that Romania had breached an EU directive on environmental impact assessment when expanding a lignite mine in the Rovinari area in the south of the country.
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Istanbul airport contractor gets new setback on coal plant project
Cengiz Construction is facing its second setback in a week after its project to build a coal plant on the shore of the Marmara Sea was suspended by a local administrative court, on the grounds that the assessment regarding the environmental impact of the facility was inadequate.
Turkey gives ‘license to plunder’ for shopping malls and residential complexes
Turkeyâs Environment Ministry has exempted a number of construction projects â including shopping malls, residential complexes, golf courts and small sized hydro-electric plants â from the mandatory environmental impact assessment process, in blatant violation of a Constitutional Court ruling.
Fate of preserved lake in the storied Kaz Mountains entrusted to gold miners
The Environment Ministry has approved a gold mining project in a preserved rural area in the storied Kaz Mountains along Turkeyâs northwestern Aegean Coast, which will impact 24 villages, a preserved lake and several archeological sites.
Bulgaria’s Environment Minister: Shale Gas Moratorium Will Remain in Place
Bulgaria's new Environment Minister, Ivelina Vasileva, has vowed to keep the 2012 moratorium on the exploration and production of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing.
In a Sunday interview for bTV, Vasileva insisted that the authorities would not allow illegal and uncontrolled construction.
She pledged clearly mapped protected areas on the Black Sea coast.