title: A Mediation Case for Resolving the Energy and Environment Dispute at Aliaga-Izmir, Turkey.
abstract: / Aliaga town, located 50 km north of Izmir, Turkey, is facing serious air, water, and soil pollution problems of industrial origin. The town has had a widespread public reaction against the estimated environmental effects of a 500 MW power plant originally to be built by a private international company during the first half of the 1990s. This project was rejected by court order at that time, but recently a number of new power projects emerged, and overall environmental burdens had to be reconsidered.A mediation exercise to resolve the ongoing dispute against these power plant projects at Aliaga was recommended and participated in by the author in 1997. In this article the basis of the continuing environmental concern about the feared impacts of the new power plants, procedure, and results of this mediation are mentioned. The basis of the "energy versus environment" dispute in Aliaga are introduced. Mediation exercise and its end results have been criticized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Buca Kaynaklar Campus, 35160 Izmir, Turkey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müezzinoglu