Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Filing: Complaint

...climate change in its countries of operations. The EBRD will engage, whenever appropriate, in innovative investments and technical assistance to support no/low-carbon investments and climate-change mitigation and adaptation opportunities, as well as identify opportunities to reduce emissions in EBRD-supported projects. The EBRD will also support its clients in developing adaptation measures that promote climate-resilient investments.” Since the EPS Restructuring project is a corporate level in...

Complaint > Shuakhevi HPP

Filing: Complaint

...changes in the micro-climate of the village, reduction of water in the river bed to only 10%. Company later completely ignored the emerged problems and refuses to deliver its commitment. Plenty of meetings have been held on this topic with government officials, company representatives and Ministry of Energy of Georgia. They were all in vain. No response followed on the letter sent to the managements of the Banks in August. Construction of the project has been completed and it left no drinking wa...

Complaint > Dariali HPP

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, the glaciers which feed Tergi and its tributaries, are reduced by several meters every year. The issue of changing the water and solid flow caused by accelerated melting of glaciers was not taken into consideration while developing the HPP project.” In September 2013 Prof. Otar Duduari, also warned that the construction site has been chosen inadequately4. More recently, Duduari stated that a construction of a hydropower plant anywhere in the Dariali gorge would increase the risk ...

Complaint > Nenskra HPP

Filing: Complaint

...changed to rock-filled with asphalt face, with total reservoir area 267 ha. Technical parameters for the Nakra River derivation dam were changed from 13 to 8.7 meters in length, while the diameter of the derivation tunnel was reduced from 4.5 to 3.5 meters. Following public consultations with many unanswered questions and concerns voiced by local impacted people, and due to continued requests for additional information and greater guarantees for the safety and livelihoods of Svans, an up-dated E...

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

Filing: Complaint

...change substantially in the next few years”. First, although 'substantially' can be open to interpretation, we would argue that production was planned to change substantially from 2011 onwards, and that this was known at the time of the appraisal of the project. This is shown for example in the General Regulation Plan for the Area of Barosevac, Medosevac, Zeoke and Burovo (2008) (p.5), which shows that in 2011 production for the Kolubara basin was planned to be at 30 million tonnes while in 2020...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...changed much over the past 20 years, regardless of changes of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006. Apart from the strict centralization of decision- making, this institutional framework creates a large lack of responsibility of each entity. Since the decision is not bound to the implementation, each entity of the institutional framework may adopt any decision, and then transfers responsibility to the superior entity for the lack of implementation. Only the Government has no suc...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, human rights and gender.” In line with the EC’s approach and the Court’s rulings regarding the implementation of the EIA Directive, Performance Requirement 1 #9 goes on to instruct that environmental and social assessment should identify associated facilities that are essential to the viability of the project, as well as cumulative impacts “of the project in combination with impacts from other relevant past, present and reasonably foreseeable developments as well as unp...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Filing: Complaint

...change. 9 Cash instead of land based compensation Regardless of whether the compensation amounts reflected the true value of the herders’ camps, a different issue is that cash payments are not effective means of compensating and resettling herders in the first place. As described above, land tenure in Mongolia is highly complex and land is often managed under customary arrangements, of...