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ENERGY MATTERS: THE VLORA COASTAL TERMINAL

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Energy Matters: the Vlora coastal terminal

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Energy Matters: the Vlora coastal terminal



Publisher: CEE Bankwatch Network

Date: April, 2008

Volume: 51 pages, pdf

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The American expressionist painter Philip Guston was famous for viewing art as illusion, where “what you see is not what you see”. A similar sensation of magic strikes you when looking into the development of energy and oil related projects on the coastline of Albania's Vlora Bay, just four kilometres north of the town of Vlora. In summer 2007, the construction works commenced on a thermo-power plant and a coastal hydrocarbons terminal in Vlora, Albania heating up local protests against the negative impacts of the projects on the local fragile ecosystems and on the economy that is sustained mostly by tourism. While people living in Vlora have been demonstrating almost every other week against the potential destruction of the Vlora Bay, the Albanian authorities and the international financial institutions (IFIs) cannot agree if the projects form a part of an energy and industry park and what type of park exists in Vlora, if it exists at all.