Change font size:
TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Protests by local residents and environmentalists over the construction of a small hydropower plant next to a protected Canyon and oil search plans at a national park have led to the suspension of works and a change of plans over environmental concerns in two southern Albanian areas where tourism is considered a major future opportunity for thinly populated villages that have faced mass migration over the past three decades. While oil search plans by Shell oil giant and the Albanian government are on track to be dropped at the Zagoria protected area off the southern Albanian…
