Protests have in recent weeks broken out across rural Georgia after construction resumed on several large hydropower projects financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
For the last decade, the government of Georgia has promoted hydropower as a way of tackling energy security and turning the country into a regional energy player. The EBRD has been one of the key catalysts of this hydro boom
At the traditional briefing of 17 April 2012 the press-speaker of the President of Georgia declared that “The construction of one more plant will begin in Svaneti
