The National Ecological Centre of Ukraine and the Ukrainian River NGO Network accuse the Ukrainian Government of ignorance and of trying to manipulate public opinion over the capacity and supposed advantages of the Dniester Hydro-Accumulating Electric Power Station

The leaders of prominent environmental organizations have analysed election programmes and called on the public to support their appeal to the candidates to take specific measures needed to resolve urgent environmental and social problems

The procedure over the natural reserve fund suffers from a lack of clarity regarding those involved in making areas reserve land; considerable dependence of the final decision on the interests of the local authorities; and the effective lack of liability for inflicting damage to natural treasures formally under State protection

Ukraine was awarded this most dubious honour over its dismal climate targets and refusal to disclose how money received from selling emissions credits was being used

For the first time since the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986 the Ministry for Emergencies has issued an official atlas of districts and oblasts [regions] contaminated through the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The National Ecological Centre of Ukraine is convinced that the present plans for construction of a centralized storage facility for spent nuclear waste on the territory of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant will not resolve Ukraine’s problems with storing spent nuclear waste

On 25 November the Kyiv Economic Court found unlawful Item 1 of the Kyiv City Council’s Decision No. 162/1996 from 22 August 2007 which illegally decreased by 9 times the area of the reserve, from 1794 to 196 hectares

The Lviv District Administrative Court has fully allowed the civil suit brought by the organization “Environment – People – Law” against the Lviv Regional State Department for the Protection of the Environment over the use of the stamp "For official use only"

On the morning of 23 November Ukrenergo continued construction of high-voltage power lines in the village of Usatove thus ignoring calls from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to suspend construction and take measures aimed at smoothing tension in the district

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is calling for a halt to the construction of high voltage power lines in the Odessa region and has expressed strong concern over the unauthorized change in the route for the transmission line

According to environmentalists, the project, financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is being implemented by the State-owned Ukrenergo in violation of the initial arrangements with the Bank and the wish of the local population

An important victory in the drawn-out conflict between the regional landscape park “Granite-Steppe Pobuzhya” and the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom

Environmentalists warn of serious risk to the Dniester Canyon if it does not receive national park status in the nearest future. They consider that it is local officials who are obstructing the establishment of a national park. The latter deny such charges

Specific issues at a press conference on 28 October include how Ukraine’s natural and historical – cultural heritage is being destroyed and plundered, the dangers inherent in procrastinating over a national nature park “Dniester Canyon” and others

According to an Accounting Chamber audit, the measures taken by the authorities to eliminate the consequences of the devastating floods in Western Ukraine a year ago have been pitifully inadequate

Environments are critical of the State Forestry Development Programme and warn of its possible adverse consequences for the loss of natural steppe lands, as well as plants and animals included in Ukraine’s Red Book

Environmental organizations have expressed their concern over the rejection by the parliamentary committee on environmental policy of a draft law imposing a moratorium on the total felling and export of wood, chippings etc

The Rivne branch of Ecoclub is alleging non-compliance with the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context since Belarus is planning construction without consultation with neighbouring countries

Despite the fact that the investigation into the murder of Oleksandr Goncharov is still at the initial stages, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has begun actively fighting illegal extraction of sand, minerals, etc from the Dnipro River

A new civic initiative, already endorsed by 29 organizations, “Dniester Environmental Wave” is specifically aimed at promoting the creation of a natural reserve “Dniester Canyon”