The European Commission (EC) said Bulgaria will face the EU Court ofJustice over development in the Kaliakra region on the Black Sea coast – a sitethat falls under the Natura 2000 network of protected sites.
EC environment commissioner Janez Potočnik said the Bulgarian authoritieshad “authorised a high number of economic activities in the area withoutappropriate environmental impact assessment.
“Thousands of wind turbines and some 500 other projects have beenauthorised without adequate assessments of their effect on Kaliakra's uniquehabitats and species, and on the thousands of birds and bats that fly over thesite each year on their way to and from Africa.”
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