UKRAINE TOLD TO CONSULT ROMANIA OVER DANUBE DELTA CANAL’S ENVIRONMENTAL RISK
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UKRAINE government should stop building a shipping canal linking the Danube estuary with the Black Sea, until it has consulted its neighbour Romania on the likely environmental damage, the United Nations has advised. Its inquiry commission into the Bystroe Canal has concluded under the UN Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (ESPOO), the Ukraine should allow Romania to comment and stage public consultation on the project. Both countries share the Danube delta, already linked to the sea by two shipping ...
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