Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Filing: 24-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown. Hence no prior EIAs were done for the Old Owen falls dam. This is further compounded by the fact that todate no post-construction EIA has been done for the old Owen Falls Dam. The World Bank admitted at the July 17th–18th, 2001 public forum on the Bujagali Dam project (held in Washington DC) that there was no formal EIA for the Owen Falls Extension Project, which has received World Bank support. It appears that this project design was based on flawed assumption about the hydrology, whic...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Filing: 14-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown at the time of the original Request (Paragraph 14D). The Forum feels that the documents present new evidence which reflects distortions in the purpose of the Cédula da Terra Project, endowing this request with technical eligibility. In view of this, and as new facts have become known, all from official sources and including the attached document, we once again request that an Inspection Panel be established for the Project under consideration based on the World Bank Resolution that estab...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether Lake Victoria will recharge to the high levels and outflow experienced during the 1961-2000 period. It is also not known whether such a recharge will occur in the next few years or in the next 100 years. A 2005 report2 by Water Resources and Energy Management International Inc., a US consultancy commissioned by the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, predicts that climate change could dramatically reduce the lake's levels and therefore outflow to ...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...unknown the potentially damaging consequences of a project supporting large-scale, concession-based logging. 3) Failure to Publish an Environmental Assessment: OP 4.01. The Bank has failed to publish the Environmental Assessment it has commissioned, denying affected communities the ability to determine the project’s social and environmental impact. 4) Violation of Bank’s Forest Policy: OP 4.36; BP 4.36. The Bank violated its Forest Policy by promoting a ...

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

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether and how stakeholder comments were taken into consideration in further development of those TOR. • The Shuren Hydro design on which all hydrological and economic calculations were based was known to threaten the huge water intake facility of Erdenet city. Threatening public water supply • Shuren Project personnel knew that, but until summer 2014 they did not disclose ...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Filing: 87-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown] (hereinafter “EIA Executive Summary”). 6 EIA Executive Summary, at 2. Interview by Komala Ramachandra with Surendraswor Moktan, Chairperson of the Protest Committee, Member of the Tamang indigenous community, resident of Majhitar, Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli District, Ward No. 7 (June 4, 2013). Notes of interviews are on file with Accountability Counsel and available upon request. including ten in Sindhuli District.7 Project documents indicate that a 15-meter right of way (“RoW...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Filing: 103-Request for Inspection

...unknown, future project liabilities with each incremental , quasi-emergency resettlement. 136 OP 4.12, Annex A, ii 20 including footnote 6. 137 OP 4. 12 Para. 33. 42 Profit and Loss ...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Unknown Chancellery Tax 3 000.00 RVM General Tax $26 446.? H. VILLE City Council Tax $118.? ONATRA Berthing Tax ...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown territory. He is driven by passion, commitment and conviction. But he was stopped. By none other than the World Bank on which he is banking. Why? He asks? What wrong have I committed? He questions, "While the World Bank organizes conclaves to inspire the youth to take greater responsibilities, why is it not supporting a youngster to represent a project with which itself partnered? He sought an answer, "how do I reach the international community to benefit from their collecti...

Complaint > Sustainable Development of Natural Resources - Additional Financing, and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources II

Filing: 83-Second Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown destinations rather than put themselves at risk in their designated new location, while others returned home but were forcefully removed by the police. Information to those affected has been lacking, adding to the uncertainty and fear. There has been no authoritative statement on how many villages and which ones are to be relocated during which phase of the process.11 VII. Conference After the World Bank’s failure to organize a serious meeting consisting of independent experts (see C...

Complaint > Tax Administration Reform Project

Filing: 64-Request for Inspection Annexes (English)

...unknown darkness (of the scenarios given in Para 4) and throwing oneself at the mercy of the Establishment Division. That it is also possible that pe.titioners opt for IRS and would finally find themselves in the PRS without opting for it (Para 4(b) of O:M.); m) Creating a new occupational group and seeking irrevocable options from • I . Customs and Excise Group and Income T~ Group to join the same W...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...unknown. In addition to Navruz, there were several tragic deaths. Igor Yachkevskiy, a 55-year old resident of Tashkent city, died of a heart attack while picking cotton in Okkurgon district, Tashkent region on the 17th of September.9Umid, a third year student of the Bukhara Engineering Institute of High Technologies, in Bukhara region, died after he was hit by a tractor on his 8 Barno Anwar, “Шаҳрисабзликмарҳумтеримчинингоиласиадолаткутмоқда,” Ozodlik.org, 15 October 2012, available at http://...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...Unknown (3). Total 11 2 Rishikesh 93 Dehra Dun (8), Tehri Bihar (2); Chandigarh 34 38 (4), Pauri (3), Roorkee (3), Delhi (4), Haryana (1), Haridwar (2), (2), Himachal Pradesh Udham Singh Nagar (2), Maharashtra (1), (1), Uttarkashi (1), Punjab (2), Rajasthan ...

Complaint > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...Unknown MESCO 0.4 Maragua Maragua 3.68 Unknown (1) NOTE : TANA HEP STATION ALSO HAS AN INTAKE ON THE TANA RIVER DRIVING A SEPARATE SET OF TURBINES WITH 8MW INSTALLED CAPACITY. Source: TNWSP – Northern Collector Feasibility Study Report by Howard Humphreys, 1998 Wanjii hydroelectric power plant is located near Murang’a town approximately 90km from Nairobi and comprises four horizontally mounted turbine generat...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Filing: 78-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown   and   that   the   per   capita   GNI   for   Kosovo   is   so   low   (i.e.,   $3,300   according   to   IFC’s   Doing   Business   2012),   this   method   was   determined   not   to   provide  an  accurate  estimate.   4  Based  on  an  analysis  carried  out  by  Vattenfall  of  the  new  mine  to  serve  the  new  power  station  with  600MW  capacity.  It  shows  an ...

Complaint > Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project

Filing: 108-Request for Inspection

...unknown. That flaw affects the evaluation of negative impacts and compensation, for without an in-depth study on wildlife it is impossible to know the negative impacts of the plant expansion project and the Metropolitan Park, including the transfer of wildlife and the determination of whether the compensation proposal can actually repair the environmental losses. The visits made to the community have allowed us to see many curis, nests and droppings of this native species of the wetlands of Bogo...