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Reventazon Hydroelectric Power Project

Issues

Biodiversity

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

Complaints with this Issue: 127

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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: 440

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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: 366

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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: 219

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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: 187

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Sectors

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: 325

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Project

Name: Reventazon Hydroelectric Power Project

Investments: IDB CR-L1049

Client: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)

Support: Loans

Country: Costa Rica

Complaint

IAM: Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI)

ID: MICI-BID-CR-2016-0112

Date Filed: Dec. 7, 2016

Date Closed: March 20, 2017

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

The Request alleges various economic and environmental harms related to the construction, operation and maintenance of the Project, in particular:i) Economic harm linked to the expropriation process, which has limited the access to water sources on the property of the Requesters affecting their productive activities and quality of life. They also point out that the expropriation process did not correctly consider the value of land at market price.ii) Environmental harm linked to the risk of collapse of areas in the property of the Requestersthat may have been provoked or encouraged by the extraction of material from the slopes of the ReventazĂ­n River. Likewise, they point harm caused by the generation of greenhouse gases given that vegetation had not been removed prior to filling the Project reservoir.iii) Harm to the biodiversity of the area linked to the risk of collapse of the Lancaster Lagoons as an alleged consequence of the extraction work carried out on the slopes near those wetlands.

Complaint Stages

Filing

Dec. 7, 2016

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Dec. 7, 2016

Registration

Dec. 7, 2016 -

Dec. 29, 2016

Registration

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Dec. 7, 2016

End Date: Dec. 29, 2016

Eligibility

Dec. 29, 2016 -

March 20, 2017

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Explanation: Good faith requirement not met

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Start Date: None

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Start Date: None

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Start Date: None

Closed

March 20, 2017

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