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 > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Management Action Plan: Report on Progress on Implementation of the Erosion and Flood Action Plan

...unknown potential impacts of the Management Consultants and the Bank project on them. to discuss the possibility of revision to the EFAP impact area. It was agreed 25. Failure to involve people affected that the develo,pments in this regard will by the project has caused confusion over be reviewed after submission of the final which areas are included in the northern report on the ‘Study of the Mathematical impact erosion area. This confusi...

Complaint > Condor Gold PLC-01/Santa Cruz de la India

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report - Nicaragua / Condor Gold 01 - March 2019 - English

...unknown to the community. Additionally, they claim that they were not invited to the public consultation events about the Project, organized by the Company in 2016 and 2018, and were subject to violence when they tried to attend. Fear of reprisals The Complainants stated that they feel at risk of reprisals for speaking up against the Project. They reported incidents of threats and intimidation by the police against them and other community members. They believe they are subject to such threats a...

Complaint > Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited-01/Leon and Chinandega

Eligibility: English

...unknown, they have been and are currently investing in significant efforts to support their work force affected with CRI by providing medical and hospital assistance. Furthermore, NSEL expressed that they will be willing to support serious and systematic research to find out the causes of this chronic condition. According to all stakeholders met during the field trip, there is a wide social concern in the region regarding CRI and how it is affecting a large number of people and families, both wi...

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 > Amaravati Sustainable Capital City Development Project

Registration: 114-Notice of Non-Registration-Updated 6 July 2017

...unknown elements, and those resisting the scheme have been jailed. 12. The Requesters state Land Pooling is happening under the AP Capital Region Development Authority Act (CRDA), 2014. They state CRDA 2014 is against the Constitution of India and contrary to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RTFCTLARR, 2013; also known as Land Acquisition Act, 2013) which provides for fair and reasonable compensation. The...

Complaint > Tata Tea-02/Assam

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report_Tata Tea-02_November _2013 - English

...unknown to the Company and were not part of the joint meeting, and with whom the Company has never directly communicated, the Company no longer felt it was in their best interest to continue the engagement with the NGOs. Once the coalition of workers, local NGOs and partner civil society organizations learned of APPL’s concerns regarding the press release, they made collective attempts to meet directly with the Company to address these concerns and explain different aspects of the press release ...

Complaint > Strominvest II-01/Minsk

Appraisal: CAO Compliance Appraisal Report Strominvest - March 2018 - English

...unknown at the time of IFC’s appraisal, PS5 requires a client to develop a Resettlement and/or Livelihood Restoration Framework outlining general principles compatible with PS5. The implementation of this requirement is managed through the client’s Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS).15 In conducting its pre-investment appraisal for equity or general corporate financing projects, IFC’s E&S review procedures require IFC’s review to cover the full range of client operations. 16 The a...

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 > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Agreement: July-August 2002

...unknown • Don’t discriminate between one group and another • Clean the houses of the affected communities • Request that a specialist evaluate the environmental situation • Keep monitoring the houses A representative of the Mesa suggested that now is not the moment to make proposals or decisions. They suggested waiting for the results of the study before deciding what actions to take. The Mine expressed the need for their team to review the ideas and stated they were not in a position to...

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 > Bujagali-02/Bujagali Falls

Eligibility: Bujagali Hydropower Project - Haplochromine Habitat Study, November 2001

...unknown (Lates niloticus) belongs are listed below. Note that the family name always strictly lithophilic cichlids (Seehausen, 1996; Seehausen et al., 1998). Prior ends in idea and that the generic and species names are always italicised. to the discovery of this rock-dwelling assemblage, the haplochromine flock of Lake Victoria was believed to be quite distinct from those of Lakes Ph...

Complaint > Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited-01/Leon and Chinandega

Agreement: English

...unknown. Job characteristics likely vary with respect to the potential for many different exposures of interest, such as heat stress, agrichemicals, metals, silica, and   4   leptospirosis. If we were to observe no differences in biomarkers of kidney injury and CKD by job category, this would suggest that the primary CKD risk factors are not occupational. However, if there are significant differen...

Complaint > Mine Closure and Social Mitigation Project

Management Response: 39-Management Response (English)

...unknown to the mine closure contractor until the slippage. As a result, a modification to the waste dump closure design was required. A series of options was considered and a risk assessment was conducted by international experts in 2003. The designer prepared a new design and submitted it to the CGMC for review and approval in December 2003. The modification included a requirement to move at least 43,000m3 of material from the dump, re-profiling of the upper flanks of the waste dump, and constr...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Management Response: 71-Management Commissioned Studies-Project Cost Estimates, Financial and Economic Analyses

...unknown, and Bank experience with high dams in karsitic environments signaled significant geological risks and a high risk that the pre-feasibility cost estimates would need significant upward revision46; and (iii) additional raw water sources were known to be needed in a second stage project, and moving forward with the Awali option did not foreclose later development of the Damour. OP 10.04 asks that Bank teams, when considering alternatives, take starting dates into account (para. 3). It high...

Complaint > Agrokasa-01/Ica

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC Investments in Agribusiness in the Ica Valley, Peru, February 22, 2011

...unknown. In particular, the impacts of the proposed water transfer within the aquifer are not assessed. The ESRS notes Agrokasa’s ongoing commitment to reduce water consumption; however, this is somewhat meaningless in terms of impact without a better understanding of the aquifer baseline, which may well be deteriorating at a significant and wholly unsustainable rate. The basis for a B categorization is therefore heavily predicated on the production of an adequate EA and its disclosure. The CAO ...

Complaint > None

Eligibility: DOC.R60-16: Chair's Summary of the Board Compliance Review Committee and CRP's Eligibility Report (with Management's Response) [PDF]

...unknown third parties. ix. These concerns and fears of the complainants are not unfounded because the CLAC (supported by TA Phase III) also recognized these dangers and is hoping to propose legislative amendments for consideration by Parliament, which if adopted, may help address some of these concerns. Among others, the amendments would require the written consent of customary landowners before ...

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...