Jelena Prtoric is a freelance journalist, who writes in English, French, and her native Croatian.
Her bylines have appeared in Libération, Al Jazeera, Monocle and the Calvert Journal. She is also an occasional podcast producer and translator of graphic novels. Her Fellowship story focuses on the energy sector in the Balkans.
Environmentalists and locals decry it. Experts call it a waste of taxpayers’ money. So why is Croatia pressing ahead with a project to turn a top tourist destination into a hub for liquid natural gas?