Complaint > Krnovo Wind Farm

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...Wind Farm Project, available at http://www.ebrd.com/work-with- us/projects/psd/krnovo-wind-farm.html. 4 III. SUMMARY OF THE RELEVANT PARTIES’ VIEWS 1. Complainant 8. The Complainant initially contacted PCM on 7 August 2015 via email, stating that he owns 21,100 m² of land in Krnovo, Montenegro, where the Krnovo Wind Farm was going to be constructed with financial support from EBR...

Complaint > Krnovo Wind Farm

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...wind farm project, June 2016, p. 5. Not publicly available. 59 Id. 60 Ledec, George C.; Rapp, Kennan W.; Aiello, Roberto G. 2011. Greening the wind: environmental and social considerations for wind power development (English). A World Bank study. Washington, DC: World Bank, p. 82, available at: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/239851468089382658/Greening- the-wind-environmental-and-social-considerations-for-wind-power-development (Last accessed 11 February 2018). ...

Complaint > Krnovo Wind Farm

Filing: Complaint

...Wind Farm Please describe the harm that has been caused or might be caused by the Project. Project Sponsor did not try to acquire land rights through negotiation but through expropriation which is not in compliance with EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy. Project Sponsor did not contact me until I reached out to EBRD. Project Sponsor intended to expropriate only the area where the towers will be built but not the area under power wires and adjacent area that will be unusable completely for s...

Complaint > Krnovo Wind Farm

Timeline: Processing steps

...Wind Farm Project number: 44546 Country: Montenegro Step Date Remarks 1. Complaint received by the 2 March 2017 Complaint is received by PCM Officer. email. 2. Complaint is registered 6 March 2017 according to PCM RPs 11-13. Relevant parties are informed. 3. PCM Expert Susan Wildau is 7 March 2017 appointed as Eligibility Assessment Expert for the Complaint. Her ass...

Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...wind protection embankment along the complete line of the exploitation field. The wind protection embankment is 2-2.5 m high. In the area of CM Veliki Crljeni, from Magnet gas station to the U-turn and the turn for OCM Tamnava West Field in its full length over the spatial width from the wind protection embankment to Ibar Highway, there are numerous planted woody plants with branched crowns several decades old which largely prevent expansion of suspended particles emission from OCM Veliki Crljen...

Complaint > Paravani Hydro Power Plant

Filing: Complaint

...wind, geothermal and bio energy alternatives to the central option. However, one it does not properly analyse alternative sources of energy generation, instead giving only background descriptions of these renewable alternatives without making a detailed comparative analysis with the central option. It does not include either financial calculations -- how much will be needed for implementing such projects - or costs of these renewable energy projects. According to the response of the EBRD, “A pro...

Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Filing: Complaint

...wind and solar capacities in the Kostolac mining region a step towards a more sustainable energy mix. During 2017 EPS developed an EIA and SEA for two solar photovoltaic plants and a project for twenty wind turbines (about 66 MW) planned on the ash deposits that are due to be recultivated and on the overburden dumping sites in the Kostolac region. Meanwhile the EBRD provided financing for two major wind farms in Serbia, Kovacica (105 MW) and Dolovo (158 MW) - examples of the work that EBRD is do...

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

Filing: Complaint

...wind). Serbia has less than one percent of electricity produced from new renewable energy sources. The Law on Energy Efficiency was passed in 20103, and although it emphasized the 2 www.rbkolubara.rs 3 http://www.epcg.co.me/pdf/06_01/Zakon_o_energetskoj_efikasnosti1.pdf 4 importance of energy efficiency in energy consumption, the concept of energy efficiency is not clearly de...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...wind, solar and sustainable biomass have not been properly assessed and the area for the project could be considered a “critical” habitat by virtue of the proven presence of the Balkan lynx in the Project area, which, according to Macedonian scientists, is a critically endangered species. During discussions in Skopje on 7th February 2012, the Complainant provided further information comprising maps showing current and proposed zoning of the Mavrovo ...

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

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...wind)’. 41 In support of this contention, the Complaint cites the relevant energy 39 Kolubara III Complaint, at 5. 40 Project No. 17829 - 2001 EPS Emergency Power Reconstruction Loan; Project No. 27005 - 2003 EPS II; and Project No. 41923 – 2011 Kolubara Environmental Improvement Project. The Complaint also suggests, at 6, that the impacts of the mooted Kolubara B Project, involving a proposal for a new 750 MW lignite-fired power plant next to the Kolubara lignite mining basin, should be c...

Complaint > Belgrade Solid Waste PPP

Filing: Complaint

...wind, solar), while for waste management, prevention, Please write on a separate sheet wherever needed. 4 composting and recycling certainly have lower emissions than burning waste, especially when one considers the need to manufacture new materials to replace those burnt. It should also be pointed out that although the ESIA tries to present the incinerator as a sustai...

Complaint > Southeast Europe Equity Fund II

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for CR

...winding up of the Management Agreement, and is confident that the Company’s view will be quickly confirmed in a court of law. 7. The Executive has opened a case in the Kosovar court system. Interestingly, the Executive’s legal complaint is significantly different than the complaint submitted to EBRD via the Project Complaint Mechanism. While the PCM action states that the Executive was compelled to file such complaint “on grounds of protecting the Kosovar profess...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Filing: Complaint

...wind, solar and sustainable biomass, there are certainly technically and economically feasible alternatives to the project. However the alternatives have not been properly assessed due to the lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Strategy for renewable use of energy sources of the Republic f Macedonia. PR 6.13: Irrespective of whether it is natural or modified, some habitat may be considered to be critical by virtue of (i) its high biodiversity value; (ii) its impor...

Complaint > CMI Offshore

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...wind farm projects independently and successively developed in the same general location. See further, A. Enriquez-de-Salamanca, ‘Project-Splitting in Environmental Impact assessment’, (2016) 34/2 Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 152-159, at 154. 7 PUBLIC PUBLIC pu...

Complaint > Paravani Hydro Power Plant

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...wind and other alternatives were not considered feasible. Further, the Bank explains that the assessment process is not the appropriate place to discuss policy- level questions such as national energy priorities, but that the ESIA in this case did consider and verify findings of a 2007 costs-benefit analysis of the Paravani Project in light of other hydropower options 31. Inadequate Project Documentation vii. The Bank contends that releasing the ESIAs in the local languag...

Complaint > IPP4 Al-Manakher Power Project

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...wind direction was toward the east/southeast. The view to the west showed some cultivated fields and rocky outcrops, with a gentle rise to higher elevations where the villages were located several kilometers away. The eastern side of the plant comprised barren rocky lands. Photo 1 Current view to West of IPP4 57. During the briefing on 10 February, the Client mentioned the following: • A state-of-the-art continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) had been installed and wo...

Complaint > Paravani Hydro Power Plant

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...wind, geothermal and bio-energy, giving only background descriptions. 7.2 EBRD Policy and Procedural Requirements EBRD Performance Requirement 1: Environmental and Social Appraisal and Management requires within Paragraph 9 that for category a projects a comprehensive environmental and/or social impact assessment and that inter alia the ‘assessment will include an examination of technically and financially feasible alternatives to the source of such impacts and documentation of the rationale for...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...wind, solar and sustainable biomass have not been properly assessed and the area for the project could be considered a “critical habitat” by virtue of the proven presence of the Balkan lynx in the Project area, which according to Macedonian scientists is a critically endangered species. d) The original Complaint further alleges that a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has not been prepared for the relevant strategy on renewable energy as is required ...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...wind. Discomfort is short.”125 While the sanitary protection zone is welcome, MHP’s response has felt dismissive of what community members experience as a significant and ongoing problem. Chicken excrement lays uncovered in a manure storage facility. Moreover, the sanitary protection zone that MHP has allotted around each brigade is currently nothing more than an open space: an allotted distance between each brigade and the next building. Under Ukrainian law, sanitary prote...