Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: Annexes

...Unknown who • Already • Projected future Community Sipacapa, San purchased water from one impacts of other users of documented demand of mine for Use Miguel and another. Montana is assisting expansions these sources dispute over potable water sources potentially other some impacted communities unknown. are. planned new to be determined. ...

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

Eligibility: CAO Media Statement, January 26, 2012

...unknown cause affecting thousands of sugarcane workers in Nicaragua. The scientific research was requested by members of a dialogue table consisting of a local community group, the Chichigalpa Association for Life (ASOCHIVIDA), and the management of Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited (NSEL), a major sugar producer in western Nicaragua. ASOCHIVIDA represents about 2,000 former NSEL workers and community members affected by the disease. The dialogue and involvement of Boston University responds to a ...

Complaint > Bujagali-03/Canada

Eligibility: Assessment Report, Complaint filed to CAO regarding the Uganda Bujagali Hydropower Project, September 2001

...unknown graves on land that may be affected by the Bujagali project, AESNP will facilitate non-denominational services to commemorate those buried dead; this idea was developed with recognized spiritual leaders in the area, including the Living Nabamba Budhagali, as well as His Highness, the Kyabazinga of Busoga and Nfuudu. A similar ceremony would be facilitated by AESNP for loss of community spiritual properties by the project; spiritual leaders conferred with the Bujagali spirits and found AE...

Complaint > BTC Pipeline-12/Tba, Tsemi, Sadgeri

Eligibility: English

...unknown. The report identifies that because of the location of the Sakatchavi Springs, supplies to these townships have zero risk of oil contamination following a pipeline spill. 11 Tba is supplied from a local spring, similar to the Sakatchvari spring. Tba is considered to have zero contamination risk. While the URS report concluded that the Tsemi water supply was not connected to a catchment with the potential to be contaminated from an oil ...

Complaint > Interagua-01/Guayaquil

Eligibility: English

...unknown and 3 does not address the water users’ grievances or respond to their specific economic circumstances. In addition, complainants believe there should be greater civic participation in regulating and monitoring the company and ECAPAG’s supervision of it. The complainants believe generally that access to water is a fundamental human right, and that no one should ever be denied the right to water for basic living needs because of an inabi...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-02/Sumatra

Eligibility: English

...Unknown Kampar District 10 Sentana Adidaya Perkasa Monipolize importing fertilizer Source: Scale-Up, 2009. In 2005, Wilmar took over PT CRS from a local company. It inherited a dispute involving claims from the Kenegerian Pangean community group over 583 hectares of land that has been converted to oil palm. There are overlapping claims between the company, the commun...

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 > 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 > 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 > Empresa Electrica Pangue S.A.-02/Upper Bio-Bio Watershed

Eligibility: English

...unknown impacts. Regarding the Pehuenche communities, the IFC investment team announced the creation of a Pehuenche controlled Foundation that would compensate for the social, ecological and cultural impacts of the Pangue dam. Six months before the presentation to the Board ENDESA was well advanced with the Ralco project, something Bank management, according to written documentation and statements, was definitely aware of. In June of 1992 ENDESA already had in its hands the p...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Eligibility: Ombudsman Assessment Report: Complaint Regarding the MIGA PT Weda Bay Nickel Project (#8113), Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, June 2011

...unknown” and “The Tobelo Forest Community at the present time is in … a location for which an RSF is being offered;” this project must still document the impact that might occur and get information and involve traditional community participation in the project area. PS8: Cultural Heritage PS8 stipulates, among other conditions, that “the client is responsible for siting and designing a project to avoid significant damage to cultural heritage; that the client will not s...

Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: Assessment

...unknown. It should be expected that additional groups – both formal and informal – may exist on downstream waterways and it will be essential that Montana ensures that their interests are protected. Some depletion in streamflow and changes in the basin water balance should be expected downstream of the TSF as a result of the TSF. These changes should be monitored, and a monitoring plan has been set forth in the company’s Environmental Monitoring Plan. In addition, the assumption that the geother...

Complaint > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Independent Investigation into the Mercury Spill of June 2, 2000 in the Vicinity of San Juan, Choropampa and Magdalena, Peru - June 2000

...unknown amounts may have been sold and transported out of the region, and some of the spilled mercury likely remains in the local environment. The exact distribution of mercury in each of these compartments cannot be determined with any confidence. 5.3.3 Identification of spilled mercury locations and roadside cleanup. The locations of spilled mercury were initially determined by reconstructing where the transport truck had stopped based on interviews with the driver as well as obser...

Complaint > Yanacocha-03/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Independent Investigation into the Mercury Spill of June 2, 2000 in the Vicinity of San Juan, Choropampa and Magdalena, Peru - June 2000

...unknown amounts may have been sold and transported out of the region, and some of the spilled mercury likely remains in the local environment. The exact distribution of mercury in each of these compartments cannot be determined with any confidence. 5.3.3 Identification of spilled mercury locations and roadside cleanup. The locations of spilled mercury were initially determined by reconstructing where the transport truck had stopped based on interviews with the driver as well as obser...