MICI-BID-CR-2016-0112
Reventazon Hydroelectric Power Project - Request II
Country: Costa Rica
Reception date: December, 7 2016
Current Status: Closed
Requesters:
A group of residents of the Siquirres area, Costa Rica
Summary of the Request
The Request alleges various economic and environmental harms related to the construction, operation and maintenance of the Project, in particular:
i) Economic harm linked to the expropriation process, which has limited the access to water sources on the property of the Requesters affecting their productive activities and quality of life. They also point out that the expropriation process did not correctly consider the value of land at market price.
ii) Environmental harm linked to the risk of collapse of areas in the property of the Requesters that may have been provoked or encouraged by the extraction of material from the slopes of the Reventazón River. Likewise, they point harm caused by the generation of greenhouse gases given that vegetation had not been removed prior to filling the Project reservoir.
iii) Harm to the biodiversity of the area linked to the risk of collapse of the Lancaster Lagoons as an alleged consequence of the extraction work carried out on the slopes near those wetlands.
Recent actions
On March 3, the MICI Director determined that the Request is not eligible because it does not meet one of the eligibility criteria set out in paragraph 22 (d) of the MICI Policy. In particular, Management has not been given the opportunity to address the concerns of the Requesters in first instance and, since the MICI is a last resort mechanism, it considers that this step is still missing and has transferred the Request to Management. After notifying the parties, the procedure was terminated.
Past actions
On December 13, 2016 MICI granted the Requesters a maximum of 10 business days to submit additional information required to process the Request.
On December 29, 2016 the Request was registered upon receipt of the additional information. This action was notified to the Requesters and to Management.
A
Power Sector Development Program 2012-2016 (Reventazon Hydroelectric Project)
ENERGY
Loan Operation
USD 250,000,000
| Registration Registered | Eligibility Not eligible | Assessment | Consultation Process | Monitoring | Recommendation for a CR and ToRs | Investigation | CR Report | Monitoring |
| Registration | Consultation Phase (CP) | Compliance Review Phase (CRP) | ||||||
Chronology and documents
| Steps and milestones | Date | Remarks | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registry | |||
| 24502 Request Receipt | 2016-12-07 | Requests of a confidential nature are not published. | |
| 24504 Notice of Registration | 2016-12-29 | 5 business days from the date of receipt of the Request or 15 business days when further information is required from the Requesters. | |
| Elegibility | |||
| 24505 Management Response | 2017-02-01 | 21 business days from the date of notice of registration. The response will be published as an annex to the Eligibility Memorandum. | |
| 24507 Eligibility due date | 2017-03-03 | 21 business days from the date of receipt of Management Response or 45 business days after the Suspension is granted. | |
| 24510 Eligibility Memorandum Public Disclosure | 2017-03-20 | As per the Access to Information Policy (OP-102) the disclosure of this document is done simultaneous to its distribution to the Board of Executive Directors. | |
| 24512 Closing date of MICI process | 2017-03-20 | ||