Protests to save the Neretva

I’M COMING TO KONJIC 11.11. At 11:55 am!
NERETVA IS BLEEDING AND NEEDS OUR HELP! #neretva

Protest rally for the defense of the Neretva River and its basin from new hydropower plants

When?
11/11/2023 year (Saturday) at 11:55 a.m.
Where?
Trg državnosti 1, Konjic

Despite the resistance of the local population, the academic community and Bosnia and Herzegovina. public, the construction of the “Ulog” hydropower plant continues, which threatens the entire upper course of the Neretva. The consequences for the river and the living world are already visible. But this is not the only threat to the survival of the Neretva and its tributaries. If we don’t act immediately, 36 more hydroelectric power plants will be built in the basin of the Herzegovinian beauty.

At one time, as many as 93 hydropower plants were planned to be built, but local communities and activist groups prevented the construction of dozens of HPPs with determined long-term struggles.
The brave guardians of the Buna, Neretvica, Doljanka, Drežanka and other Herzegovinian rivers showed that we can stop the force by fighting. It is up to us to fight for Neretva now.

We refuse to be remembered as the generation that did not fight for one of this country’s most valuable rivers.
That’s why we gather in Konjic on 11.11. this year, at a large protest rally to mark a turning point in the battle for Neretva.

We demand:
Urgent stoppage of the construction of HPP “Ulog”
Cessation of the implementation of the planned HPPs “Bjelimići” and “Glavaticevo” and 7 small hydroelectric power plants in the area of the upper course of the Neretva.
Stopping the construction of HPP “Gornji horizonti”
Strict legal protection of the natural values of the Neretva basin.
Stopping the purchase of expensive coal for the needs of Elektroprivreda BiH from the private mines of the EFT and Lager companies – not only are the miners of the EPBiH mines put on a beggar’s pole with this purchase, but public money is also spent on companies that are destroying Neretva and Bliha with their projects.