"“Anatolia Won’t Be Blackened” Declare Turkish Anti-Fossil Fuel Groups
Julia | March 11th, 2011 | Comment | Email this
Over the past few decades, dozens of local environmental groups have sprouted across Turkey, united by a single goal: dissuading the government from allowing energy companies to build fossil-fuel-fired power plants near their homes. In the Marmara Sea resort region of Yalova, for example, the Yalova Environmental Platform held a press conference to protest the construction of a local coal-fired plant — and was promptly sued by the company who wanted to build it. In the Black Sea town of Gerze, the Green Gerze Environmental Platform held a “Meeting for Climate Justice” last November, to raise awareness about the coal-fired plant that may soon be built near the town, and the threat that dirty fuels pose to the climate."
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