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Buchanan Renewables Biomass
Issues
Community health and safety
Description: Complaint raises concerns related to public health and safety including incidents of or an increase in accidents, release of hazardous materials, and spread of diseases. Concerns related to retaliation and/or violence are not included.
Complaints with this Issue: 363
Due diligence
Description: Complaint raises concerns about inadequate or absent prior investigation of project impacts.
Complaints with this Issue: 486
Environmental
Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding environmental impacts that do not refer specifically to water, pollution, or biodiversity.
Complaints with this Issue: 408
Gender-based violence
Description: Complaint raises concerns about incidents of or an increase in abusive behavior perpetrated because of a person's gender, or against people of a particular gender. This can include overt physical abuse, psychological abuse, deprivation of resources needed for physical or psychological wellbeing, and treatment of people as commodities.
Complaints with this Issue: 17
Human rights
Description: Complaint frames concerns using the language of human rights violations.
Complaints with this Issue: 66
Labor
Description: Complaint raises concerns about violations of appropriate labor standards related to the project, including issues regarding compensation, workplace conditions, retaliation, and child or forced labor.
Complaints with this Issue: 104
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
Pollution
Description: Complaint raises concerns about releases of pollutants related to the project, including hazardous or non-hazardous chemicals, minerals, metals, pathogens, odors, noise, vibration, radiation, light, and heat.
Complaints with this Issue: 229
Retaliation (actual or feared)
Description: Complaint raises concerns about incidents or risk of harm against those who have raised concerns about the project perpetrated by the project company, government, public or private security forces, or other individuals acting on behalf of project proponents. Retaliation may include discrimination, slander, threats, denial of services, unfounded judicial proceedings, and termination of employment. Concerns regarding specific incidents of violence are not included.
Complaints with this Issue: 71
Sectors
Agribusiness
Description: Project relates to the agricultural industry, including smallholder operations. Examples may include support for production, distribution, capacity building, and access to credit.
Complaints in this Sector: 102
Energy
Description: Project relates to energy access, legal frameworks regarding the energy sector, and development and operation of energy infrastructure, including power generation and electric and gas distribution and storage. Projects specifically related to the extraction of oil and gas are not included.
Complaints in this Sector: 353
Complaint
IAM: Office of Accountability (OA)
ID: Buchanan Renewables Biomass
Date Filed: Jan. 22, 2014
Date Closed: Sept. 30, 2014
Status: Closed With Outputs
Complaint Stages
Filing
Jan. 22, 2014
Filing
Status:
Start Date: Jan. 22, 2014
Registration
Jan. 22, 2014 -
Jan. 22, 2014
Registration
Status: Closed With Output
Start Date: Jan. 22, 2014
End Date: Jan. 22, 2014
Eligibility
Closed With Output
Eligibility
Status: Closed With Output
Start Date: None
Dispute Resolution
Not Undertaken
Dispute Resolution
Status: Not Undertaken
Explanation: Not offered by mechanism, Dispute resolution was not an option in this case
Compliance Review
Feb. 20, 2014 -
Sept. 20, 2014
Compliance Review
Status: Closed With Output
Start Date: Feb. 20, 2014
End Date: Sept. 20, 2014
Has Compliance Report: No
Non-Compliance Found: Yes
Monitoring
Not Undertaken
Monitoring
Status: Not Undertaken
Explanation: Mechanism deemed involvement unnecessary, Mechanism chose not to monitor
Closed
Sept. 30, 2014
Timeline
Involved Groups
| Name | Complaints | Group Type |
|---|---|---|
| Accountability Counsel | 18 | International CSO |
| Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) | 10 | International CSO |
| Green Advocates | 2 | International CSO |
Commitments
| Type | Category | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Process Change | Operations Management | Developed Human Rights Due Diligence | Accomplished |
Related Complaints
| Project | IAM | Country | Date Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan Renewables Biomass | OPIC OA | Liberia | 10/01/2013 | Closed Without Outputs |