Tag: Shar Mountain

Will the investors who have concessions for construction of small hydro power plants in the protected area of the new national park in North Macedonia, "Shar Mountain" give up and how much reimbursment will they require?  A year after Shar Mountain was declared a national park, there are still no answers to these questions. Last July, when the 4th national...

Construction of new hydro power plants, opening new mines, geological researchеs or new pipeline infrastructure will be banned on the whole territory of the Shar Mountain National Park. In all the planned management zones of the national park, raising introduced and invasive plants and animals will be banned as well. In the protected area of Shar Мountain, construction of houses...

The construction of the small hydro power plants on Shar Mountain has started. Although it is a matter of days when Shar Mountain will be declared a national park, the 7 hydro power plants whose construction is underway, will yet see the light of the day. Portalb.mk got this information from Hisen Xhemaili, the director of the Environmental Protection...

Naser Nuredini, the Minister of Environment of North Macedonia, has placed Shar Mountain under temporary protection until it is declared a national park. As the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning informs, Nuredini has passed a decree in accordance with the Law on Nature Protection for temporary protection of the part of the Shar Mountain which is under a...

Civil organizations "Eko-Svest" and "Front 21/42" appealed to the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev to change his stance that the small hydro power plants are the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. The environmentalists are worried that, in a situation of a climate crisis that we live in, with the rise of global temperatures and the decrease...

Civil society organizations are urging the Ministry of Environment of North Macedonia to revise the Law for declaring Shar Mountain a national park since, as they state, the proposed draft law doesn't offer protection from the negative influence of the mini hydro power plants. Environmentalists from 44 associations and initiatives, with a joint stance, have requested from Minister Naser Nuredini,...

The capture of small rivers and sentencing to death the whole biodiversity in the surrounding area is a consequence of the enormous number of concessions for micro hydropower plants that have no serious contribution to the country's energy resources. The civil society organizations appeal to the Government of North Macedonia, even to its own detriment, to terminate the concessions...

The International Day of Rivers, which is marked each year during the last week of September, will be dedicated this year to the effortsfor saving the rivers at Shar Mountain from the micro hydropower plants. Two days ago, environmentalists, civic associations, hiking associations, local citizens from the surrounding villages of Vejce, Bozovce, Brodec, and Veshala, including nature enthusiasts, formed...

The environmental organizations alarm that the planning and the building of micro hydro power plants on the Shar Mountain and the issuing of concessions for them should stop. These energy facilities provide minimal contributions to the country's total energy balance, but are causing enormous damage to the rivers' potentials, which due to the climate changes are providing less and...