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Karabiga Cenal Power Station
Energy
Coal and gas power plants
[ELAW seeks a copy of this court decision.]
News articles report a company proposing to construct a coal-fired power plant near Karabiga, Turkey, attempted to disguise the severe environmental and cumulative impacts of the proposed project by preparing four separate EIAs, rather than a single EIA. Each of these EIAs was approved by environmental officials; however, a Turkish administrative court rejected this approach and declared that the project proponent must prepare one EIA disclosing all of the impacts of the coal-fired power plant in its entirety.
The case is described in the following news article, dated November 26, 2014: