Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...wind). Serbia has less than one percent of electricity produced from new renewable energy sources. The Law on Energy Efficiency was passed in 20103, and although it emphasized the 2 www.rbkolubara.rs 3 http://www.epcg.co.me/pdf/06_01/Zakon_o_energetskoj_efikasnosti1.pdf 4 importance of energy efficiency in energy consumption, the concept of energy efficiency is not clearly de...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Filing: 16-Request for Inspection (English)

...wind-swept, arid lands currently used for grazing by indigenous nomads, into intensive agricultural production. It also includes the construction of a 40-meter dam; extensive irrigation networks; rural roads; increased use of pesticides and fertilizers; labor mobility (encouraging migration from a rural way of life to the cities); and the potential entanglement with the extensive lao gai prison labor network and its associated industries. Moreover, it raises serious questions about the recognize...

Complaint > Tata Ultra Mega-01/Mundra and Anjar

Filing: Complaint from Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS – Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers Rights) regarding Tata Ultra Mega, June 11, 2011

...winds and currents. The creeks also form a natural drainage system; if disrupted, unseasonal flooding could occur. The Mundra‐Anjar zone is also a major site for salt production; its 1,720 hectares of salt beds contribute roughly one tenth of the total production in Kutch. These are a major source of livelihood and employment for nearly 15,000 persons who produce around 600 thousand MT annually which is valued at close to INR 300 million.9 With such rare ecological diversity, a clear safeguard m...

Complaint > Belgrade Solid Waste PPP

Filing: Complaint

...wind, solar), while for waste management, prevention, Please write on a separate sheet wherever needed. 4 composting and recycling certainly have lower emissions than burning waste, especially when one considers the need to manufacture new materials to replace those burnt. It should also be pointed out that although the ESIA tries to present the incinerator as a sustai...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Filing: Complaint

...wind, solar and sustainable biomass, there are certainly technically and economically feasible alternatives to the project. However the alternatives have not been properly assessed due to the lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Strategy for renewable use of energy sources of the Republic f Macedonia. PR 6.13: Irrespective of whether it is natural or modified, some habitat may be considered to be critical by virtue of (i) its high biodiversity value; (ii) its impor...

Complaint > Chad-Cameroon Pipeline-03/Doba

Filing: Complaint from Local Inhabitants and Communities in the Chad Project Area, October 10, 2011

...windmills. 6.1.4. Land disputes and divisive relations between migrants in shanty towns and local inhabitants and between neighboring communities The arrival of the petroleum development project in the area has been cited as the main cause of land disputes. These disputes are often between members of a single family or between families and neighboring communities. In fact, the petroleum development project has brought a kind of mafia to the area, which controls the management and use of natural ...

Complaint > Lonmin-02/Marikana

Filing: Complaint regarding Lonmin project

...windows. 3. My family also does not have water, we need four 20 litre buckets to survive a day, pay R1.00 for each bucket and walk 10 minutes to collect the water from neighbours who do have water. The land we have would grow vegetables if we had water, the problem is that we do not have water to grow the plants. 4. I used to have electricity in my shack and would pay about R200.00 per month for it. As is the case for most women in Sikhala Sonke, I do not have a flushable toilet and ...

Complaint > Alex Dev-01/Wadi al-Qamar

Filing: Egypt Alex-Dev Complaint

...winds in this coastal area are largely northwesterly, the residential area lies right in the path of the plant’s emissions. I. Titan’s non-compliance with environmental protection standards 1. The plant operates illegally, without a license The IFC financing framework states that clients must comply not only with the institution’s performance standards, but also with applicable national laws.4 Clients are obligated to maintain a comprehensive policy, which should specify that the project will co...

Complaint > MHP-01/Vinnytsia

Filing: Letter of complaint - June 5, 2018 EN

...wind. Discomfort is short.”126 While the sanitary protection zone is welcome, MHP’s response has felt dismissive of what community members experience as a significant and ongoing problem. Moreover, the sanitary protection zone that MHP has allotted around each brigade is currently nothing more than an open space: an allotted distance between each brigade and the next building. Under Ukrainian law, sanitary protection zones surrounding chicken houses should have landscaping and shrubs c...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...wind. Discomfort is short.”125 While the sanitary protection zone is welcome, MHP’s response has felt dismissive of what community members experience as a significant and ongoing problem. Chicken excrement lays uncovered in a manure storage facility. Moreover, the sanitary protection zone that MHP has allotted around each brigade is currently nothing more than an open space: an allotted distance between each brigade and the next building. Under Ukrainian law, sanitary prote...

Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Filing: Complaint to the CAO, June 13, 2012

...wind erosion and icy rain, animal disturbances, etc.), but in the case of paramos, disturbances are infrequent, because when they occur they significantly affect the plant cover. 63 The panorama of impacts on paramo ecosystems due to stress regimes64 and disturbance regimes65 is serious. The environmental, technical and water conditions of the paramo ecosystem mean that an open air or underground mining project in these ecosystems poses a real risk of causing serious, irreversible environmental ...

Complaint > Ecodevelopment Project

Filing: 11-Request for Inspection (English)

...winds, State turned a blind eye to the exploitation of the Nagarahole adivasi by the plru1ters and tobacco growers even while legislating many forest laws, perpetrating state sponsored exploitation. STA'fE JMPOSED WELFARE MEASURES: Naturally, under the circtunstances the priority of the State revolved arotmd forceful eviction of the adivasi from their habitat and 'civilize'- them through various welfare schemes such as providing modem education, giving them alien implements such as those whi...

Complaint > Sustainable Development of Natural Resources - Additional Financing, and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources II

Filing: 83-Second Request for Inspection (English)

...winds down properly. As the experts noted, the closing of a mine is if anything, even more important than how the mine is opened. As can be seen, this complex project will likely have a very significant impact on Afghanistan, positive or negative. In order to monitor and manage all aspects of the project throughout the multi-decade life of the mining project, and to ensure the collaborative sharing of information and the joint and coordinated development of solutions, a committee of officials, e...

Complaint > Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project

Filing: 108-Request for Inspection

...wind and are the result of the natural recovery process and existing trees from the closure of garbage dump 30 years ago. In this respect the following aerial photography can compare the size of the forest in 1998 against the current size: Photograph of the forest in 1998 Photograph of the forest is 2014 33 33 Maps of Bogotá 2015 19 Somos Uno Colectivo Foundation NIT 900929423-6 3043258332-3132893904 Bogotá, Colombia Photograph of the forest in 2004 Photograph of the forest is 201...

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

Filing: Complaint

...wind blows in particular. There was a woman who went to bathe in the river and after she had scratches.” Louis Tirène. “It's not every time you go to the river that you can see it's directly polluted. They will throw stuff in the river at specific moments. One day you may come and you see the river quite clean, and then if you come back the next day, the water smells really bad and is completely green.” Re...

Complaint > Alto Maipo-01/Cajon del Maipo

Filing: Letter of complaint - Redacted - January, 2017 (Spanish)

...wind sector in Chile, which focused mostly on providing demonstration effects, with a critical mobilization role for a larger project; and (iv) provide support to hydropower projects located close to the load center of the country, in a climate of increased environmental opposition to other projects in the Patagonia region which require extremely long and invasive power transmission lines. ,,7 A pesar de 10 seiialado en el parrafo preced...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...wind generation should be explored more thoroughly. Secondly, we have suggested to WB officials that a redesign of the project will reduce the negative environmental impacts substantially. We have suggested that an obstruction may be made on part of the river bed instead of making a dam across the river bed. This will ensure river bed connectivity. It will make it possible for downward flow of sediments and upward migration of fish. This technique is traditionally used in Uttarakhand for running...

Complaint > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...winds converge, but due to the local differences in elevations, and the continentally, the climate is modified to “modified equatorial climate”. This climate is much cooler than the general tropical continental climate or highland subtropical climate and changes with altitude, becoming semi-arid towards the lower reaches of the catchment. Climate Change versus Climate Variability Climate Change refers to a change in the state of the climate that persists for an extended period, typically decades...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...winding down; most of the easily accessible timber has already been harvested. In future, transportation costs will predictably be higher and eastern DRC timber less competitive with timber in neighboring countries. The following brief summary of eastern DRC timber export activities draws on sources in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. A-2.2.1 Uganda Throughout the civil war Uganda imported the highest volumes of eastern DRC timber. Mahoganies (Khaya spp. and Entandophragma spp.) accounted for the maj...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...Wind Energy Association), 1999, Amazonia", in Environmental q Submission from the EWEA: Greenpeace Management, Vol. 26. and Wind Industry Unveil Global Energy Fernandes W, Paranjpye V, 1997, Rehabilitation Blueprint, Contributing paper for WCD Policy and Law in India: A Right to Thematic Review IV.1 ESDM Annex H. Livelihood, Pune, New Dehli, ECONET, F...