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Radomiro Tomic Desalination Plant

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

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Consultation and disclosure

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding inadequate or absent consultation about or disclosure of project information, including project impacts and/or mitigation plans.

Complaints with this Issue: 538

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Cultural heritage

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on any type of tangible or intangible cultural heritage, including significant sites, unique environmental features, cultural knowledge, and traditional lifestyles.

Complaints with this Issue: 120

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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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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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Gender-related

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding impacts on individuals because of their gender identity that do not relate specifically to gender-based violence.

Complaints with this Issue: 22

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Indigenous peoples

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on indigenous or traditional communities.

Complaints with this Issue: 89

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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

Conservation and environmental protection

Description: Project relates to preservation or management of the natural environment, legal frameworks regarding environmental protection or pollution, and carbon sequestration or other climate change mitigation activities.

Complaints in this Sector: 62

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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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Other

Description: Project relates to an industry that does not fit in one of the other sectors. Projects about which there is no publicly available information regarding the industry are also included.

Complaints in this Sector: 595

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Project

Name: Radomiro Tomic Desalination Plant

Investments: IDB 12277-01

Client:

Support: Loans

Country: Chile

Complaint

IAM: Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI)

ID: MICI-CII-CH-2020-0153

Date Filed: Jan. 16, 2020

Date Closed: Jan. 24, 2020

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

The Request describes the situation that the communities would face for the future construction and operation of the Radomiro Tomic Desalination Plant on the coastline of the Tocopilla commune, in the Antofagasta Region, Chile. In the document, the Requesters describe potential effects on their living and economic conditions, cultural heritage, security and physical integrity, health and the social fabric of the communities. In the same way they warn of possible negative damages to the environment and their corresponding impact on their livelihood activities and traditional ways of life. Specifically, the Requesters state that: IDB Invest would have breached the provisions of its Operating Policies, as well as in reference to the performance standards of the International Finance Corporation. This alleged non-compliance refers to a series of actions and omissions, among which the absence of an adequate and complete evaluation of environmental impacts, without the perspective of cumulative impacts; absence of an adequate evaluation of social impacts, preventing the total identification of those affected and the characterization of the population, especially of the indigenous population living in the area and which would be significantly impacted. Similarly, they allege that an adequate consultation and participation procceses were not carried out, that the Project poses insufficient compensation measures and the existence of inadequate procedures to guarantee access to information to the affected communities. The Request describes numerous negative environmental effects both for the construction stage and operation of the Plant, which would mainly impact the coastal ecosystem and that would have negative implications for traditional fishing activities, main economic activity of the Requesters, as well as on their servitude rights. Additionally, they warn of future negative impacts on their health due to the increase in pollution, as well as effects on communities due to the migration of workers and the increase in vehicular traffic due to the presence of the Plant. Finally, the Request highlights potential effects on cultural heritage, traditional ways of life and alteration of the social fabric of coastal communities, coupled with a lack of gender perspective of the impact on women in the community that the Project would have. In relation to the MICI process, they state that they wish to resort to both the Consultation Phase and that of the Verification of Enforcement, if their request is declared eligible.

Complaint Stages

Filing

Jan. 16, 2020

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Jan. 16, 2020

Registration

Jan. 16, 2020 -

Jan. 24, 2020

Registration

Status: Closed Without Output

Explanation: Inadequate information, Early-stage project

Eligibility

Not Undertaken

Eligibility

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage, Complaint was originally found ineligible or not registered

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage, Complaint was originally found ineligible or not registered

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage, Complaint was originally found ineligible or not registered

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage, Complaint was originally found ineligible or not registered

Closed

Jan. 24, 2020

Timeline