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DFF Adriatic Metals

Issues

Biodiversity

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on plant or animal species in the natural environment.

Complaints with this Issue: 134

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Environmental

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

Complaints with this Issue: 387

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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: 226

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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: 68

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Water

Description: Complaint raises concerns about access to or availability of water. Concerns related to water pollution are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 194

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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: 199

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Project

Name: DFF Adriatic Metals - 52342

Investments: EBRD 52342

Client: Adriatic Metals PLC

Support: Equity

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Complaint

IAM: Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM)

ID: 2022/02

Date Filed: Aug. 15, 2022

Status: Active

Description

The complainants "allege that since 2020 and increasingly thereafter, they have witnessed devastating damages to the area’s natural resources, including illegal cutting of forest planned to be protected under projects on both cantonal and municipal level, pollution of several sources of drinkable water serving the local communities, damages to the biodiversity populating the rivers, heavy machinery entering illegally the area causing devastation to the environment, landslides, noises, vibrations and drillings. Further allegations were raised about the lack of community engagement in the process. In their claims, the flora and fauna of the area are severely endangered by the project, especially in terms of polluting the main water source for approximately 30000 inhabitants of the Kakanj district. The Complainants requested the activation of IPAM’s Compliance function."

Complaint Stages

Filing

Aug. 15, 2022

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Aug. 15, 2022

Registration

Aug. 15, 2022 -

Oct. 5, 2022

Registration

Status: Closed Without Output

Start Date: Aug. 15, 2022

End Date: Oct. 5, 2022

Eligibility

Oct. 5, 2022 -

April 3, 2023

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Oct. 5, 2022

End Date: April 3, 2023

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Not desired by complainant, Complainant chose not to have dispute resolution

Compliance Review

April 3, 2023

Compliance Review

Status: In Progress

Start Date: April 3, 2023

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage

Closed

Not Closed

Timeline

Documents

Name Category Description
Request Filing