{"id":1579,"date":"2016-05-10T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/georgia-swept-by-protests-against-ebrd-backed-hydropower\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:11:05","slug":"georgia-swept-by-protests-against-ebrd-backed-hydropower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/georgia-swept-by-protests-against-ebrd-backed-hydropower\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia swept by protests against EBRD-backed hydropower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Protests have in recent weeks broken out across rural Georgia after&nbsp;construction resumed on several large hydropower projects financed&nbsp;by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).&nbsp;At the sites of the Shuakhevi, Nenskra and the Dariali hydropower&nbsp;plants (HPPs), demonstrators have complained that the projects were&nbsp;repeatedly decided behind closed doors, and that poor assessments of&nbsp;the social and environmental consequences mean their livelihoods are&nbsp;under threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While frustrations with a lack of action by officials has tensions&nbsp;running high across Georgia\u2019s villages, the EBRD annual meetings are&nbsp;an opportunity to discuss how best to prevent the escalation of thissituation in Georgia and to reflect critically on the bank\u2019s involvement in&nbsp;the development of the country\u2019s energy sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Georgian_hydro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgian_hydro<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/app\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Georgian_hydro.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,50,696,902,909,23,135,830],"topic":[9],"post_author":[],"photo_author":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21392,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/21392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_author?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"photo_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenalt-live.w3i.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_author?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}