Why is the World Bank backing coal power in Europe’s youngest country?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/20/kosovo-coal-plant-power-world-bank-investment-dirty-technology
After Kosovan elections in 2014, a leaked email written by a World Bank employee explained the need to “educate” the new administration on how to handle a single-bidder procurement process without falling foul of the law. It added that US government representatives within the country were strongly allied to the project and that domestic US political concerns about backing coal would be massaged by the fact that the only bidder was a US company, ContourGlobal.