On December 29, the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Bialystok, Poland released the environmental consent for the Augustow bypass. The consent confirms that the road, part of the new Via Baltica corridor, will bypass the Augustow Primeval Forest Natura 2000 site and the magnificent Rospuda Valley. This news should finally bring an end to a long-running saga that has seen (...) »
20 October 2009 - Warsaw / Brussels — Today’s decision by the Polish Council of Ministers on a new routing for the Via Baltica expressway [1] has been welcomed by campaigners from CEE Bankwatch Network, BirdLife International, OTOP - BirdLife Poland and other environmental groups as major (...) »
Robert Cyglicki, Polish national coordinator for Bankwatch, said: “We are delighted that the Polish government has finally seen sense and that this case has come to a satisfactory conclusion. All the same, it is deeply regretable that we have lost two years and that people living in the town of (...) »