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Panama Canal Expansion-01/Gatun

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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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

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Displacement (physical and/or economic)

Description: Complaint raises concerns about physical relocation, loss of shelter, and/or loss of assets that relate to income or livelihood.

Complaints with this Issue: 494

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Due diligence

Description: Complaint raises concerns about inadequate or absent prior investigation of project impacts.

Complaints with this Issue: 486

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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: 408

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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: 195

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Sectors

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: Panama Canal Expansion-01/Gatun

Investments: IFC 26665

Client:

Support: Loans

Country: Panama

Complaint

IAM: Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)

ID: panama-panama-canal-expansion-01lake-gatun

Date Filed: May 13, 2011

Date Closed: June 30, 2013

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

In May 2011, the CAO received letters of complaint from several local and national environmental and citizens’ rights organizations. The complainants cited concerns related to IFC’s due diligence process in assessing and approving the project and outlined specific environmental and social concerns related to community health and safety due to the dam’s site close to seismic fault lines, impacts to the marine ecology and water sources, and issues related to the relocation of communities.

Complaint Stages

Filing

May 13, 2011

Filing

Status:

Start Date: May 13, 2011

Registration

Not Undertaken

Registration

Status: Not Undertaken

Start Date: None

Eligibility

May 13, 2011 -

July 27, 2011

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: May 13, 2011

End Date: July 27, 2011

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Actor(s) involved refused to participate, All parties involved refused to go through dispute resolution

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Mechanism deemed involvement unnecessary; Rejected at appraisal or similar

Has Compliance Report: Yes

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage

Closed

June 30, 2013

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