Complaint > AES PNG-01/Roku Village

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report - AES-PNG - March_11_2015

...wind and rain.  Local habitat of badicoot rats, wallabies, butterflies and native eucalyptus trees have been destroyed.  Fish and crabs have migrated to breed in other areas, as their mangrove habitat has been irreversibly damaged.  The Kuriu indigenous people have not be appropriately recognized and their cultural heritage has not be respected by AES. 3.2.2. Company Perspective In the Company’s view, they have complied with all procedures i...

Complaint > Nenskra Hydropower Project

Filing: Request for Compliance Review

...wind will intensify evaporation. Evaporated moisture will cover buildings and fruit trees in a form of hoar frost and damage them. The damage caused by early frosts is graver as it will damage buds and sprouts, and ultimately result in premature aging, fruitlessness and dying of plants. For the people, that experience from rheumatism and/or need treatment respiratory or cardiovascular diseases the health condition will further aggravate.” • As a result of the construc...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Management Action Plan: 34-Second Management Progress Report (English)

...winds over 100 miles per hour and extremely heavy rains, hit the coastal zone of Pakistan causing severe damages to Karachi and the coast of Balochistan. The cyclone passed over Badin, without producing severe damages to the LBOD outfall system. 5 The SCAD includes: (a) improving access to basic services, including health, education, and drinking water supply and sanitation; (b) increasing incomes through improved crop, fisheries and livestock production as well as marketing and micro-finance ...

Complaint > Provincial Agricultural Services Program II (PROSAP II)

Appraisal: Issuance of Assessment Report

...wind and rain. Here therefore suggests the performance of a proper archaeological rescue. This involves the excavation of a representative section of the remaining area, which will determine the type and age of the materials present on the site. Those materials can then be studied and exhibited in an exhibition hall in the nearby town (Real del Padre), as the local population intended. The requester also notes that both the Frugoni‐Marco and Nuevo Alvear canals are built in an oasis framed by th...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...wind impacts on air quality. The wind direction in the affected area of Limpopo Province and neighboring Botswana is predominantly northeasterly. In addition, there are infrequent easterly and westerly winds that could serve to combine emissions from different coal-based energy facilities.194 Cross-border transport of harmful emissions from the Matimba and Medupi Power Plants is thus highly likely,195 although its significance has not been assessed. 383. T...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Management Response: 102 - Management Response (English)

...wind can supply Mongolia’s rapidly growing demand at present due to their inherently intermittent nature. There is no 8 Mongolia: Updating the Energy Sector Development Plan. ADB Project number 43079. 9 Para 7, page 6, Mongolia: Updating the Energy Sector Development Plan, Part C, Volume VI of X. 17 Mongolia evidence that wind and solar power can provide a full substitute for hydropower and gas or coal fired power plants in Mong...

Complaint > DIF Lydian (Amulsar Gold Mine) 2

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...wind direction, advised that most people would experts Frederic G., Lela S., village prefer to sell their lands. Mayor Update on current social programs; upcoming mine conference in Yerevan where 19.03.2014 Gndevaz, CLC meeting, CLO reps from all communities will be invited. CLC reps asked about the location of the ...

Complaint > Rainforest Ecolodge Linkages-01/Deniyaya

Eligibility: CAO Ombudsman Assessment Report, February 2010

...winding track that is used predominantly for accessing the tea plantations. Based on geography, the potential for impacts on the Deniyaya community by the project are not obvious. However, Deniyaya is also the location of the local government council – the Kotapola Pradeshiya Sabha – with whom the project must obtain certain approvals and clearances. Figure 2: Project Map showing Tea Estate, the Sinharaja Forest Reserve and Project Area REC Project Area From its early i...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Filing: 65-Request for Inspection (English)

...wind, solar, and rail projects. The World Bank is ambiguous about whether South Africa's national legislation governing resettlement is equivalent to that of the World Bank's policy. In order to attain a fairer outcome for any displaced people, this issue should be examined. Human Rights 15. South Africa's actions related to the Eskom project violate the human rights of the communities, and are inconsistent with the South African Constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Ri...

Complaint > Termoelectrica del Golfo Project

Eligibility: Issuance of Eligibility Memorandum

...wind to disperse the ash in the vicinity to then be inhaled by or otherwise come into direct contact with the inhabitants.” When the expert was questioned about the impacts or risks to the health of the inhabitants of Las Palmas Ejido, she responded, “…that question would have to be answered by an expert in human health.” 3.6 The alleged “new evidence” is a ruling from an amparo proceeding against the use of coke for street repair. Notwithstanding the transcriptio...

Complaint > Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project

Dispute Resolution: Final Report (English)

...wind and solar power generation. Affected households and impact: The project involved the construction of new substations, upgrading and augmentation of existing substations, construction of transmission lines, construction of distribution gantries and its associated lines, and rooftop solar power generation investments in Sri Lanka. Land acquisition was required only for the construction of the new transmission grid substations and distribution gantries. Approximately 7.70 hectares (ha) o...

Complaint > Tata Ultra Mega-01/Mundra and Anjar

Appraisal: English

...wind may lead to ash blowing off ash ponds; that chimneys may not be the requisite 275m and that these problems will increase as more CGPL units come on line. Possible exposure to increased radioactivity due to presence of coal ash is also raised as a concern. The IFC Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) provides that the project was expected to meet emissions standards as set out in the World Bank Group’s Thermal Power: Guidelines for New Plants (Pollution Prevention and Abatement Han...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Compliance Report: 46-Investigation Report (English)

...wind farm planned in Europe.” Newsfromitaly.today.com. Economy, Industry. 2 December 2008. http://newsfromitaly.today.com/2008/12/02/signed-commitment-to-the-largest-wind-farm-planned-in- europe/#more-7 Accessed 9 July 2009. 18 allow electricity to be transmitted in either direction. The interconnection line and the wind farm have an estimated cost of 1.25 billion Eu...

Complaint > Lukoil Overseas-01/Berezovka

Eligibility: English

...wind conditions, is especially disconcerting; akims say this is a topic of overwhelming concern among residents, and confirms people’s mistrust and lack of confidence in KPO’s environmental and public health studies. Most akims and deputies agree that data reliability is the key point of contention between KPO and its critics. While they believe KPO generally has made a good-faith effort to educate residents about air quality sampling, to establish community response systems, and to raise...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Filing: Complaint (English), July 2, 2010

...wind  Creation of barriers that reduce the ability of some species to (1) spread to and inhabit new habitats, (2) seek food and (3) find mates. Mining will damage one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world. It is not an exaggeration to fear that many species of birds on this island will become extinct because they are endemic (are not found in any other hemisphere than Halmahera). PS7: Indigenous Peoples 1 Miller, G.T. ...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Management Response: 34-Management Response - Elaboration of the Short Term Action Plan

...wind energy for pumping and generation of electricity. 13. Program approach. Partner organizations work with communities in their designated area to mobilize community participation and organization. They assist the new community organization to determine needs and priorities, project selection and preparation, and determine community participation in implementation including cost sharing in kind. Training is provided to new community organizations. Strategies for assisting the communities, ...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: 102-Third and Final Report and Recommendation(English)-13 July 2017

...wind, solar and/or alternative water power energy options, in addition to the “no project” scenario. The REA will also contain a cumulative impact assessment of potential projects in the Selenge River basin in Mongolia. The GoM will hold public consultations on the draft REA. Management explains that it will support the PMU in the review of the TORs, which could be completed by August 2017, and estimates that the contract for the study could...

Complaint > Manila Second Sewerage Project (MSSP)

Management Response: 28-Management Response (English)

...wind, it moves towards Luzon’s west shores in a north to northeasterly direction. 27. The EIA estimated that from the total residential water pollution load of 390 tons/day of BOD, about 30 percent or 130 tons/day of BOD would be removed from MM’s waterways by effective performance of existing septic tanks and improved Central and Pampanga. This caused widespread economic and environmental damage and created vast tracts of barren land in the area once considered the “rice and sugar bowl” o...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...wind, coal. By supporting two hydropower dams the MINTS project encourages development of a sector Encouraging inefficient which has a very questionable future and the highest possible risks of failure in Mongolia. OP 4.01 - Environmental Assessment development of energy sector • When in 2012 Rivers without Boundaries (RwB) suggested to the WB Task Team Leader at the ...

Complaint > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report - Bridge-01/Kenya - March 2019 - English

...wind and rain lead to flooding and bring waste from the surrounding community into the school. Bridge explained that it is unfortunate that waste enters the school premises at times and that they have put in place measures ranging from structural design to raising the ground level to creating waterways that can mitigate the impact of flooding on playgrounds. However, they informed CAO that this is the environment in which they operate, and if schools were not allowed to operate in these env...