Complaint > BTC Pipeline-32/Vale

Filing: English

...unknown to us.  We, the former owners/users of the land, do not have any information (or it is unknown to us) regarding the long-term monitoring group, which reviews compensation and low harvest issues, especially since at this stage it is unknown whether there exists such a group in BTC Pipeline Company or who the members of the group are.  BTC Pipeline Company requests to create a servitude agreement on plots of land in our owners...

Complaint > Axzon-01/Halych and Kalush

Filing: Danosha Complaint - ENG

...unknown, since the company does not provide any environmental information. In case of pollution with manure, local communities may be deprived of access to water for drinking, household, domestic or recreational purposes. Water Intake For its needs, the company intakes water from the artesian wells. The volume and places of intake are unknown. Furthermore, it is undefined how and to what extent the impacts on water resources were evaluated. Local citizens are worried about the impact of addition...

Complaint > Protection and Recovery of Cultural Heritage Assets Program

Filing: Request Receipt

...unknown impacts on their health as well as to the environment which could be caused by exposure to pollution and hazardous waste transmitted by air and waterways which could be linked to the “Protection and Recovery of Cultural Heritage Assets Program.” On the other hand, the Request elaborates on the different failed attempts made to request information from the IDB regarding this Program and, therefore, urged MICI to provide all public information as per the Access to Information Policy (OP-10...

Complaint > Lydian Intl3-02/Gndevaz

Filing: Lydian-02 Gndevaz complaint_ENG_

...unknown. As a result of the explosions resulting from the exploitation of the Amulsar gold mine, the heavy metal dust will spread over the pastures, haylands and farmlands, as well as the residential area of the village. According to independent experts the radioactive levels with rise. Our rights are being violated by the support of IFC and EBRD. Geoteam is resolving its issues illegally and those residents that do not wish to leave Gndevaz are forced to sell their lands are becomi...

Complaint > Orion-02/ Gualeguaychu

Filing: Complaint with Annexes, August 5, 2009

...unknown by either of them. Finally, besides algae the stain contained chemical products that are harmful for the river life, the composition of which was duly studied by the authorities of our country and submitted as evidence before the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Once the court declassifies said documents – which will occur in a few weeks – we shall access that information and confirm the gravity of the spill that was concealed both by Botnia and the IFC, through their appoint...

Complaint > Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement Project (Sewage Treatment Plant Component)

Filing: Complaint received, 28 May 2009

...unknown reasons the location of STP was changed to near Village Jabbar Miana (Refer SEIA dated July 2005 on ADB website) to a location, which was previously rejected on very solid technical grounds. All of a sudden the rejected location became the most favoured location???. 5. There are serious environmental concerns like odor, mosquito breeding and spreading of diseases, loss of 250 hectares of very fertile agricultural land and thus livelihoo...

Complaint > VEIL II-01/ Ratanakiri Province

Filing: Complaint to CAO VEIL II - Feb 2014

...unknown subsidiaries, or sources rubber from other companies that it does not own, which adversely impact other villages in Cambodia. The complainants are seeking full disclosure from HAGL of all of its affiliated companies operating in Cambodia as well as social and environmental impact assessments and other relevant audits of all operations. 7. Finally, we wish to bring to CAO’s attention reports by Global Witness of environmental and social harm to communities in Laos as a result of HAGL’s op...

Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Filing: 24-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown. Hence no prior EIAs were done for the Old Owen falls dam. This is further compounded by the fact that todate no post-construction EIA has been done for the old Owen Falls Dam. The World Bank admitted at the July 17th–18th, 2001 public forum on the Bujagali Dam project (held in Washington DC) that there was no formal EIA for the Owen Falls Extension Project, which has received World Bank support. It appears that this project design was based on flawed assumption about the hydrology, whic...

Complaint > Termoelectrica del Golfo Project

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown whether, assuming there is an Official Mexican Standard for the use of coke as a hazardous waste, its application – coke ash – has been in strict compliance with applicable rules and standards. 3.- On June 2, 2010, we, the undersigned, filed a suit for constitutional protection against the aforementioned authorities for the improper authorization, to our detriment, by the HON. MUNICIPAL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF TAMUÍN, SAN LUIS POTOSÍ and the companies THE AES CORPORATION, TERMOELÉCTR...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Filing: 14-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown at the time of the original Request (Paragraph 14D). The Forum feels that the documents present new evidence which reflects distortions in the purpose of the Cédula da Terra Project, endowing this request with technical eligibility. In view of this, and as new facts have become known, all from official sources and including the attached document, we once again request that an Inspection Panel be established for the Project under consideration based on the World Bank Resolution that estab...

Complaint > Southern Agriculture Area Development Project

Filing: Complaint received, 28 Sep 2010

...unknown) came to the people and apologized that the project will not be implemented in this Ail Okmoty, because the funding was directed to another project. Later, this Ail Okmoty was informed that there will be another possibility to do reconstruction in the irrigation system with the help of ADB Agriculture project. Our rights and interests that have been, directly affected materially and adversely by this project include the following: ‐ Right to information ‐ Right to clear drinking ...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Filing: Complaint (English), July 2, 2010

...unknown” and “The Tobelo Forest Community at the present time is in … a location for which an RSF is being offered;” this project must still document the impact that might occur and get information and involve traditional community participation in the project area. PS8: Cultural Heritage PS8 stipulates, among other conditions, that “the client is responsible for siting and designing a project to avoid significant damage to cultural heritage; that the client will not s...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion-01/Gatun

Filing: Complaint, May 12, 2011

...unknown benefits they could offer the world. A very recent example of how devastating the introduction of non-native sea creatures into a marine habitat can be is demonstrated by the disastrous escape of “lion-fish” into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida aquarium as a result of Hurricane Andrew. This is not a trivial matter of no consequence. Lion-fish have spread up the eastern seaboard of the USA, into the Gulf of Mexico, and out to the Islands of t...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown benefits they could offer the world. A very recent example of how devastating the introduction of non-native sea creatures into a marine habitat can be is demonstrated by the disastrous escape of “lion-fish” into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida aquarium as a result of Hurricane Andrew. This is not a trivial matter of no consequence. Lion- fish have spread up the eastern seaboard of the USA, into the Gulf of Mexico, and out to the Islands of the Caribbean, wiping out species as they've ...

Complaint > Maritsa East Mines (BEH Bond Issue)

Filing: Complaint

...unknowns are destroying us! So far since 2010 all meetings - with Maritsa East Mines, the administration of Radnevo Municipality and others - are at our request. Maritsa East Mines rarely wished to meet with the public and solve the problems arising from coal mining. After 2010 Maritsa East Mines bought up a large part of the agricultural land for the Troyanovo-North field, and the owners who refused to sell were forced to expropriation in accordance with the established order through the State ...

Complaint > MHP-01/Vinnytsia

Filing: Letter of complaint - June 5, 2018 EN

...unknown to local communities. A 2016 Supplementary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (“ESIA”) for the VPF released by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (“OPIC”) in connection with its own investment review process attempts to estimate the resource use and other impacts of the VPF, by adding together predictions and reports found in other documents, produced at varying times, for individual facilities.23 However, discrepancies between the OPIC Supplementary ESIA ...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...unknown to local communities. A 2016 Supplementary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (“ESIA”) for the VPF released by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (“OPIC”) in connection with its own investment review process attempts to estimate the resource use and other impacts of the VPF, by adding together predictions and reports found in other documents, produced at varying times, for individual facilities.23 However, discrepancies between the OPIC Supplementary ESIA...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether Lake Victoria will recharge to the high levels and outflow experienced during the 1961-2000 period. It is also not known whether such a recharge will occur in the next few years or in the next 100 years. A 2005 report2 by Water Resources and Energy Management International Inc., a US consultancy commissioned by the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, predicts that climate change could dramatically reduce the lake's levels and therefore outflow to ...

Complaint > Marena Renovables Wind Project 2

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown.26 The above leads to a failure to identify, in a timely and effective way, the direct adverse impacts on the communities located where the transmission lines will be constructed. In violation of the Indigenous Policy,27 this omission by the Bank 21 On 02/08/2011, the Community of San Dionisio Pueblo Viejo held an Assembly in which it decided on total rejection of the Project. It should be emphasized that, besides community members and inhabit...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...unknown the potentially damaging consequences of a project supporting large-scale, concession-based logging. 3) Failure to Publish an Environmental Assessment: OP 4.01. The Bank has failed to publish the Environmental Assessment it has commissioned, denying affected communities the ability to determine the project’s social and environmental impact. 4) Violation of Bank’s Forest Policy: OP 4.36; BP 4.36. The Bank violated its Forest Policy by promoting a ...