Dubrovnik City Council Adopts Declaration Against Ombla Power Plant

The Dubrovnik City Council, meeting on Monday, unanimously adopted a declaration against the construction of the Ombla hydroelectric power plant.

The City Council fully supported the opinion of the State Institute for Nature Protection, issued in April, saying that it was not possible to rule out considerable negative effects of the project on the integrity of the local ecological network and that therefore it should be rejected.

The declaration says that the environmental impact study is not in line with the existing Croatian regulations and European Union directives governing environmental and nature protection. It notes that a strategic assessment of the impact of the project, both on the environment in the Dubrovnik area and neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, was never made.

Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) councillor Blaz Pezo said that the project did not take sufficient account of the high seismicity of the area.

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