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| Gabčíkovo turns 25 |
| Bratislava, 04.11.2017 |
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| Twenty-five years ago Slovakia unilaterally dammed the Danube River and directed part of its water into a man-made channel and down into turbines of the hydropower plant in Gabčíkovo. Damming the river was the last construction phase of Slovakia’s part of the communist-era Slovak-Hungarian twin-dam project Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros.
After a quarter century of operation the power plant remains controversial. While the government praises its benefits in the form of green energy generation as well as better anti-flood protection and navigability of the river, environmentalists point to its impact on the Danube’s eco-system.
“The Gabčíkovo plant has been glorified as our family silver,” writes environmentalist Mikuláš Huba on the occasion of the anniversary. “Is it really so rosy as it is interpreted?”
He perceives the Gabčíkovo project to be a legacy of the industrial era from the second half of the 20th century, when there was glorified heavy engineering, steel and cement to the detriment of the opinions of nature scientists and the green infrastructure preferred in the developed world.
”But the Gabčíkovo plant is not a problem itself only as it is simultaneously a precedence,” opines Huba. “The glorifying campaign, which has been raised around it again in these last weeks, wants to make passable also other, so-far unimplemented, large water projects in Slovakia.”
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