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BTC Pipeline-28/Adana & Ceyhan

Issues

Environmental

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding environmental impacts that do not refer specifically to water, pollution, or biodiversity.

Complaints with this Issue: 408

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Livelihoods

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on the means by which people make a living, including wage-based income, trade and bartering, agriculture, fishing, foraging, and other natural-resource based means.

Complaints with this Issue: 345

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Sectors

Extractives (oil, gas, mining)

Description: Project relates to the extractive industries, including oil, gas, and mining. Examples may include mines, drilling operations, pipelines, and the associated legal frameworks.

Complaints in this Sector: 201

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Infrastructure

Description: Project relates to construction or improvement of large structures, facilities, or public works projects. Examples include roads and other transportation projects, sanitation and water treatment facilities, power plants, and industrial facilities.

Complaints in this Sector: 995

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Project

Name: BTC Pipeline

Investments: IFC 11251

Client: Baku Tiblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline

Support: Loans

Country: Turkey

Complaint

IAM: Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)

ID: turkey-btc-pipeline-28adana-ceyhan

Date Filed: July 6, 2006

Date Closed: Feb. 28, 2007

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil and gas pipeline is a 1,768 km long crude oil pipeline stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world and passes through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. IFC has invested $250 million since 2003 and the total project cost is approximately $3.6 billion. The project is operated by BTC Co., which comprises a consortium of 11 partners. To date, CAO has received 33 complaints in relation to the project ranging from individuals to communities to local organizations. On July 6, 2006, CAO received a complaint from an NGO named Society for the Protection of the Environment and Consumer, filed on behalf of Central Fishery Products Cooperative. The complaint alleged that the terminus of the BTC pipeline resulted in a loss to local fishermen of their fishing areas and fish stocks. They requested compensation for existing and predicted financial losses.

Complaint Stages

Filing

July 6, 2006

Filing

Status:

Start Date: July 6, 2006

Registration

Not Undertaken

Registration

Status: Not Undertaken

Start Date: None

Eligibility

July 6, 2006 -

Sept. 1, 2006

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: July 6, 2006

End Date: Sept. 1, 2006

Dispute Resolution

Sept. 1, 2006 -

Dec. 1, 2006

Dispute Resolution

Status: Closed Without Output

Explanation: Mechanism unable to contact complainant

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Mechanism unable to contact complainant

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage

Closed

Feb. 28, 2007

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