Complaint > Termoelectrica del Golfo Project

Eligibility: Issuance of Eligibility Memorandum

...unknown whether an official Mexican standard exists for the use of coke, and that, even were an official standard to exist, it is unknown whether its application in the context of the plants would be restricted to regulatory compliance. 1.3.3 In order to substantiate their claims, the Requesters submit a copy of a writ of amparo [action for enforcement of rights] filed against the city council and the companies AES Corporation, Termoeléctrica Del Golfo, Te...

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 > Rural Land Titling & Registration Project in Peru - Third Phase

Management Response: Management Response

...unknown number of native communities that have not registered their territorial claims. 1.3 Management finds that: (i) the project has been designed in full compliance with the environmental safeguards provided for in OP-703, for purposes of ensuring that the project is environmentally sustainable and focused on risk management. It has also been designed in compliance with Policy OP-765, as the potentially negative impacts on the land, territories, and rights of indig...

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 > Termoelectrica del Golfo Project

Eligibility: Issuance of Eligibility Memorandum

...unknown impacts causes them harm since it may have had negative consequences on human health, natural resources, agricultural, livestock and other economic activities. The Request also states that the use of pet-coke with a high sulfur content generates air emissions of sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that generates acid rain, is considered harmful to human health, vegetation, and metals. 3 4.2. In addition, the Requesters indicate that it is as yet undetermined whether...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Dispute Resolution: Consultation Phase Report Public Disclosure

...unknown. During the Monitoring Committee’s first meeting, which is expected to take place the first week of February, the plan and follow-up calendar will be agreed upon in detail. 3.5 This document’s Annex II contains a preliminary monitoring plan and time frame. Like the terms of the Agreement, and product of the exchanges between the Parties, the plan and time frame are confidential. Consequently, and as mentioned in the previous section, Annex II will be redacted fr...

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 > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

Complaint > Low-Income Neighborhood Improvement Program - Habitar Brasil

Dispute Resolution: Issuance of Consultation Phase Report

...unknown to the Municipal Government when signing the agreement. Given these facts, which made it legally unviable to use the land area in question, the Mayor’s Office explored other alternative locations for building the dwellings. 4.11 On 16 December 2013, the Mayor’s Office, through the then Director of the Housing Department, presented additional documentation on a new option: (a) a planialtimetric cadastral ...

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 > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...unknown. This is contrary to the international standards and best practices established for this type of project.92 The Policy establishes that: “1. Every effort will be made to avoid or minimize the need for involuntary resettlement. A thorough analysis of project alternatives must be carried out in order to identify solutions that are economically and technically feasible while eliminating or minimizing the need for involuntary resettlement.” In addition, accord...

Complaint > Electric Interconnection System for the Central American Countries (SIEPAC)

Appraisal: Issuance of Assessment Report

...unknown. o The scale used in the EIA and the ESMP is very high, which has made it difficult to work out in detail the specific impacts that the project could generate in each subsection. This can be done once agreement has been reached on the final alignment. 11 Which entail “a halt in any work or activity.” 33 E. Conclusion and nex...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Appraisal: Issuance of Assessment Report

...unknown. Available online at www.earthconsultants.com/news/aeg-abstract.pdf 54 For this purpose, The Consultation Phase team found useful information in the July 2011 Vulnerability Diagnostic to Natural Hazards Threat report, prepared as background paper for loan PN-L1074, “Program to Reduce Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Climate Change II,” currently under preparation, as a starting point. ...

Complaint > El Dorado International Airport

Management Response: Submission of the final document to the Board of Executive Directors for consideration

...unknown at this time. This clarification is important because one of our complaints is the lack of appropriate consultation. Therefore, it is likely that the community is not aware of all of the relevant information; and d) In addition to the interviews identified, the MICI must hold open meetings with the affected community during the mission to Bogotá. It is important for the members of the community t...

Complaint > Pando-Monte Lirio Hydroelectric Power Project

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown. The project will divert the river and it is likely that the remaining 10 percent ecological flow will significantly reduce the depth of the river. The Project has been intensively debated within Management. There have also been discussions with the Board. o Time line of Ecological Flow Discussions Prior to Financial Closure: Prior to the date of financial closure, the IDB demanded that EISA presented in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank the following documents: (a) f...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Filing: Complaint

...unknown. HA-T1179 is meant to assess water availability, quality, and an integrated water resources management in Northern Haiti: HA-L1101 ESS ¶¶2.7-2.8, 4.16-4.17. 339 ActionAid (2015), p. 13: “residents complained that too much water was being captured in the park in light of the 2014 drought.” In an interview, Ilna St Jean reported that a nearby well has run dry and that there is less water in the Trou-du-Nord river, impacting fish (11 July 2016, available on request). 340 See footnot...

Complaint > Marena Renovables Wind Project 2

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown to the affected communities) would have resolved these issues, given that they were prepared without the fair and active participation of the affected communities. Regardless of the content of the plans, that assertion contradicts the Bank’s Policy on Indigenous Peoples. Paragraph 4.3. The compensation plans are not of interest to the communities. What we want is respect for the management of our territory. In addition, those plans only covered the project’s construction period, not its ...

Complaint > El Dorado International Airport

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown). Source: IDB and Project documents. Determination of compliance with the Disclosure of Information Policy (OP-102) of 2006 2.234 The information in Table 8 shows that: (i) one of the four documents subject to mandatory disclosure under the policy was not disclosed; (ii) the nondisclosed document is the environmental assessment (Environmental Analysis), which...

Complaint > Downtown Redevelopment, Modernization of Metropolitan Public Transport, and of Government Offices Project

Compliance Review: Public Release of the Compliance Review Report and final decision by the Board of Executive Directors

...unknown (ESMR), October 2010 date. Source: Prepared by the MICI based on various documents obtained during the investigation. e. What does the Access to Information Policy of 2010 (OP-102) establish? 2.299 With the approval of Operational Policy OP-102 of 2010, the Bank reaffirmed “its commitment to transparency in all aspects of its operations.” The objective of the policy is to enhanc...