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New Tirana waste-to-energy plant gets green light amid environmental concerns

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TIRANA, Aug. 30 – The Albanian government has launched contract negotiations with a Netherlands-based company that has been awarded a 30-year concession to build a waste-to-energy plant in Tirana, the third such license to be awarded in Albanian territory despite environmental concerns and in some cases protests by local residents in the previous two projects. Netherlands-based Integrated Energy B.V. has been announced the winner of a 30-year concession to build “a landfill, incinerator and rehabilitate existing waste disposal sites in Tirana’ in return for investment of €128 million, the Public Procurement Agency announced this week. The company, owned by a…

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