Georgia: Locals assure Shuakhevi hydropower plant is responsible for increasing water droughts and landslides in Nigazeuli
摘要
日期: 2021年5月5日
地點: 喬治亞
企業
Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC - Unknown項目
Shuakhevi HPP - Unknown受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
Geological stability , 土地權 , 水的獲取 , Impacts on Livelihoods , Personal Health回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: NGO
The cracks of Shuakhevi, 5 May 2021
Since the construction of Shuakhevi commenced in 2013, local communities have been complaining about their cracked houses, decreased crops, disappeared drinking water and water leakages. They complain that these are the direct consequences of the construction...
Shuakhevi is one of Georgia’s biggest and most controversial hydropower plants, which is mostly famous for its failure: in 2017, two months after becoming operational, its tunnels collapsed at eight spots...
In 2020, new problems came to light: one month after the newly repaired Shuakhevi power plant started operations, Georgian online media outlet Batumelebi published footage that showed water leaking out of Shuakhevi’s dam...
Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC (AGL) is the company behind Shuakhevi’s construction and operations. It is owned by Norway’s Clean Energy Invest AS, India’s Tata Power and IFC Infraventures. Norway’s Clean Energy is also associated with the construction of another controversial large dam in Georgia, Namakhvani, which has caused a wave of protest across the country...
The locals recall that the company representatives explained the disappearance of water to them as the consequences of ‘weather changes’.