Hydropower is often sold as ‘green energy’ but there is absolutely nothing ‘green’ about it: they are devastating for the rivers and the life in and around them (see our film “The End of the River” available on www.youtube.com).
In conjunction with our fight against hydropower we are also fighting for refurbishment or removal of the hundreds of thousands of damaged or unnecessary dams and other obstacles in Europe’s rivers. Fish passes are now made obligatory by law (the Water Framework Directive), but only a few of them are doing what one would expect them to do for fish migration.
On this topic, we closely cooperate with EAA and the non-profit association “Living Rivers Europe”.
