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 be s...

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. Environm...

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 awaren...

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

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 environm...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...wind). Since Kosovo is a signatory to the Energy Community Treaty, two objectives of the strategy, i.e., decommissioning of Kosovo A and bringing Kosovo B into compliance with the EU Directive on Large Combustion Plants, represent legal obligations under the treaty. 16. Implementation of the above strategy is expected to reduce particulate matter (PM) emissions by over 90 percent and sulfur and nitrogen oxides by more than 70 per- cent over the current levels. In the absence of new capacity...

Complaint > Nedbank Tier II-01/Kintinian

Filing: Letter of complaint to CAO with annexes - Nedbank-01 - April 2017

Osvaldo Gratacos Vice President and CAO Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvani a Avenue NW Washin gton, DC 20433 USA E-mail: CAO@worldbankgroup.org April 27, 2017 Dear Vice President Gratacos Re: Complaint concerning IFC loan to NedBank Group Ltd (Project no. 26014) 1. Centre de Commerce International pour le Developpement ("CECIDE"), Le Memes Droits Pour Tous ("MDT"), and Inclusive Development International ("IDI'') are submitting this com...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Management Response: 16-Management Response (English)

...wind during land development in order to minimize wind fetch and the potential for erosion. It has also been recommended that no land development be done during the windy period of the year (April–May) to further reduce risks. However, in response to concerns, it has been agreed that the Pre-Pilot Phase of the Project will be used to carry out additional research on the impacts of the existing adjacent settlements on ecological systems outside the Project development areas to provide a quantifie...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Management Response: 31-Management Response (English)

...winds as the rotary cross spectrum between wind and currents showed good correlation at the diurnal frequency. The sub-inertial period energy decreased with depth for the whole year. Tidal height measurements are given in the Final Report of the Oceanographic Program, Hazen and Sawyer, October 199. The fluctuations are small, generally less than 45 cm, and so do not contribute significantly to the currents. 2.3 Density Stratification Density stratification, the variation of seawater density with...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

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

...wind energy for pumping water and generating electricity; and (vi) reducing physical vulnerability, through the construction of flood protection and sea water containment structures and better response mechanisms by communities. 8. Financing agreements have been signed over the last year with ten partner organizations (POs) participating in the SCAD through an informal organization, the Sindh Coastal Areas Network (SCAN). The network provides a platform for improving the quality of life, allevia...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report in English and in Gujarati [PDF]

...winds. According to CGPL, coal dust pollution is strong during the three winter months when wind blows from the coal stock piles towards the village. Residents of the Wand and Tunda villages confirmed this, but also indicated that they were regularly cleaning to remove the dust deposits. They complained about strong coal dust pollution all year round. The pollution is much stronger at Wand village, where some houses are located less than 300 m away from the CGPL coal storage area and conveyors. ...

Complaint > Myanma Awba Group Company Ltd.-01/Myanmar

Eligibility: Assessment Report, Myanma Awba Group Company Ltd.-01 - June 2018 - English

...wind was blowing, but that the odor causes nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, and headaches, and is particularly bad for small children. This also has an impact on agricultural productivity, because the side effects of the odor make it difficult to work, particularly at night in the rubber plantations. They indicated that community members who can afford to relocate have already moved, however, most community members are poor and cannot afford to relocate or to buy masks to protect themselv...

Complaint > Lukoil Overseas-02/Berezovka

Eligibility: English

...wind direction in at all times from the communities situated at various distances along the KOGCF perimeter toward the center (!) of the field, which improperly lowers possible concentrations of pollutants” (KEPS Report, 2006, pp. 28-29). • “Environmental-protection measures have not been implemented for a number of years (KEPS Report, 2006, p. 30). 6 • “The company is violating its own statements and declarations regar...

Complaint > Lukoil Overseas-03/Berezovka

Eligibility: English

...wind has shifted and/or the concentrations have diminished.  The water is contaminated by the project‘s emissions and not suitable for drinking or irrigating.  Many residents are frightened of KPO‘s operations and live in fear that a disaster or serious accident could happen at any time. 5  For a number of reasons, the Community Forum that was established by KPO is not a trusted venue for raising co...

Complaint > Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...wind speeds of 10 metersper second or more. Consequent&, up to 50% of the area is not properly irrigated The coordinator conciudes his letter by exhorting the World Bank to act in favor of the project: We wish to draw your attention once again to this cynïcul disregard, so that the World Bank can tmly asume its responsibility towardfamilies affected by the &, and so that we do not go hungry in thefuture, as victims of a mistakenpolicy thai the Bank itse!fpubldy cord.znrz (Annlex N>. Official le...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Management Action Plan: 31-Management Progress Report

...wind patterns. The Bank will also request that ACUACAR hire an international expert to provide a third and independent opinion on the two- dimensional models contracted under the Project and the detailed review presented in Annex B of the Panel's report. Itisk of Diapirismri (mitd In response to the Panel's suggestion and given the utility and relatively low cost of suchI volcanism) a survey. ...

Complaint > Manila Second Sewerage Project (MSSP)

Eligibility: 28-Eligility Report (English)

...winds could carry floating septage towards the shoreline.45 According to the Response, a Bank-hired independent expert (Fenviron, December 1995), and a study prepared by Danish Hydraulic Institute (MSSP-Modeling of the Dispersion of Septage from Ocean Dumping, January 1997), concurred with the EIA/EMP that the environmental risk in the sea disposal of septage would be insignificant.46 30. According to Management the sea disposal site is one of eight waste ...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

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

...wind energy for pumping water and generating electricity; and (vi) reducing physical vulnerability, through the construction of flood protection and sea water containment structures and better response mechanisms by communities. 8. Financing agreements have been signed over the last year with ten partner organizations (POs) participating in the SCAD through an informal organization, the Sindh Coastal Areas Network (SCAN). The network provides a platform for improving the quality of life, allevia...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Eligibility: 46-Eligibility Report (English)

...winds and currents, will affect the enclosed Vlora Bay and contaminate the Vlora city air. These effects will have a negative impact not only on local population and fishing but also on the tourism industry which is an important source of employment and income in the area. The Requesters stated that the prospect of economic growth of the area is mostly based precisely on the activities to be harmed by the Project, namely tourism and fishing. 29 Manageme...