TNSHP Workshops

2nd Thematic Network Workshop on Small Hydropower: Small Hydropower and Public Image. Falkenberg, Sweden 18th June 2004

 SHP and Public Image

• This workshop was organised by the TNSHP EU funded project.  This network will help to reach the public in general and improve the image of SHP through the exchange of information and points of view. Indeed, cross-border and coordinated actions, in which different players have the opportunity to act and react, contribute very positively to increasing public awareness and acceptance.
• The SHP sector is adapting its technology to the environment through continuous research and improvements. Unfortunately results and applications of these improvements are not broadly disseminated to the public; as a consequence the SHP sector is unfairly accused of some environmental impacts out of its scope of responsibility.
• The workshop aims at improving the SHP public image through contacts with environmental groups, fishermen federations and other public opinion makers in order to understand one another and collaborate to find compromises.

Programme

• SHP and Public image: What is happening? Maria Laguna, ESHA.
• Public image and environmental policy on Small Hydropower in Baltic States, Petras Punys, Lithuanian Hydropower Association.
• The Image of Small Hydropower and ISO 14001, Anne Pénalba, GPAE (Groupement des producteurs Autonomes d’énergie hydroélectrique), France
• Public Image Campaign on Small Hydropower in France, Francis Armand. ADEME, France.