Media attention for advisory report Khudoni Hydropower, Georgia

10 June 2013

Tblisi, Georgia, 5-12 april 2013. An NCEA group of experts was invited by the Georgian Ministry of Environment to review the EIA report of the controversial Khudoni Hydropower project. There is a lot of media attention for this project, both in newspapers like The Georgian Times and on the national news. Some of the findings of the NCEA experts concern shortcomings of information on:

• justification of the project;
• level of sedimentation;
• social impacts of the project.