Project Visits



NEW! Following the Africa workshop in Maputo, Mozambique, Dr. Salim and the team went to Beluluane Industrial Park outside the capital for the third EIR Project Visit to Mozal aluminium smelter project, 19 January 2003. A detailed trip report will be available shortly

Dr. Emil Salim travelled to Africa for the second EIR Project Visit to visit the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, October 10 - November 2, 2002

Extractive Industries Review Report of Project Visit to Papua New Guinea
This report was prepared by Ms. Rini Ariani Sulaiman, Consultant to the Extractive Industries Review, who, along with Ms. Mardi Minangsari, accompanied Dr. Emil Salim on his project visit to Papua New Guinea, August 2-11, 2002. Dr. Salim will shortly add his own notes of the visit to the draft report. For more information on the projects visited in Papua New Guinea, click here for the Papua New Guinea Project Visit page.

Project visits should fulfill these criteria:

Sustainability: We are interested in projects that provide an insight into the issues that are related to the extractive industries' impact on environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Balanced perspective: Project visits should include both good and problematic examples, IBRD/IDA, IFC and MIGA projects, and oil, gas and mining sectors.

Below are proposals the EIR has received for project visits:

Latin America and the Pacific Region

                  Country
                  Project
                  Reasoning

                  Argentina
                  Huantraico
                  Petrolera San Jorge (was acquired by Chevron); IFC has provided assistance and advice regarding its financial restructuring, co-financing, and hedging arrangements.

                  PASMA - local community of Catamarca

                  Brazil
                  Carajas
                  Closed in 1982; Indigenous People Program

                  Brazil - Bolivia Pipeline
                  Brazil - Bolivia Gas Pipeline
                  large project with various complex social (eg. indigeneous peoples), and environmental implications (eg. the world's largest fresh-water swamp)

                  **The Brazil-Bolivia Gas Pipeline has been recommended for visit by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank**
                  To read the supporting documents from the World Bank Group:
                  Project Information summary, Implementation Completion Report, (plus cover)

                  Bolivia
                  Inti Raymi Mine Project

                  Ecuador
                  Small Scale Miners' Project
                  Indigenous peoples affected

                  Peru
                  Yanacocha
                  Mercury spill, Indigenous peoples affected

                  Santa Filomena
                  Small Scale Mining Community visit, Mercury contamination, pollution, child labour, organizational and legal aspects

                  Antamina
                  New mine, largest one in Peru; has a major economic impact; there are major efforts in terms of social responsibility to evaluate its resettlement policy; its influence area is over 300 km, including a port.

                  Tambogrande
                  Not a World Bank Group project; conflictive due to deposit which lies underneath agricultural land; the most productive in Peru; political conflict; population rejects mining due to negative past experience.

                  Camisea Gas Pipeline
                  World Bank Group not involved; Shell is applying the lessons learned from Niger Delta

                  Suriname
                  Maroon Community, artisanal mining

                  Amazon Region
                  Indigenous Peoples
                  Meeting of indigenous peoples before the Latin America and the Pacific workshop


Asia and Pacific Region

                  Country
                  Project
                  Reasoning

                  Australia
                  Jabiluka
                  not a World Bank Group project; UN World Heritage site, Kakadu National Park

                  Bangladesh
                  Arisa
                  IFC – coal power generation

                  Coal Public Sector Restructuring


                  China
                  Coal mines

                  India
                  Coal India
                  Coal Public Sector Restructuring; involuntary resettlement issues, social impact, acid drainage, pollution. Important global call for a transition to renewables if sustainability is to be achieved.

                  Indonesia
                  Freeport - McMoRan
                  concerns regarding human rights issues, prolonged conflct with indigenous people, deforestation, contamination of rivers from mine wastes. MIGA guarantee was cancelled in 1997.

                  Pama
                  Small mining operator which IFC began to finance recently

                  Malaysia
                  Example of a resource rich country without clear correlation with poverty, corruption, conflict

                  Myanmar
                  Yadana Gas Pipeline
                  The World Bank Group withdrew from financing the Ratchaburi; allegations of forced labour

                  New Caledonia
                  Inco's Nickel Mining

                  Papua New Guinea
                  Represents small scale mining, small island, community concerns

                  Mining Sector Reform
                  Interesting revenue/community aspects

                  Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development Technical Assistance Project

                  OK Tedi
                  not World Bank Group, legal settlement issues, sustainability issues.

                  Lihir Gold Mine

Africa Region


                  Country
                  Project
                  Reasoning

                  Angola
                  Province of Cabinda
                  Gas potential, flaring it for 25 years, and may start using it soon.

                  Botswana
                  Orapa - Diamond Mine

                  Chad/Cameroon Pipeline
                  Resettlement issues, compensation for socio-economic impacts, plan for mitigation of impact to the Bakola population, oil spill prevention and response planning. Tropical wet forest, vulnerable ethnic minorities.

                  Rio de Oro Region
                  Gas flaring elimination and usage

                  Democratic Republic of Congo
                  Katanga Province
                  Mining sector under expansion, therefore key isues to discuss with communities is waht role the World Bank Group should or should not play.

                  Ghana
                  Conflict between large and small scale miners

                  Guinea

                  Madagascar

                  Mali
                  Sandiola Mine
                  Significant growth of the mining sector in Mali; Resettlement of two villages and land reclamation, environmental impact mitigation

                  Nigeria
                  Delta Region
                  Oil and local communities, national versus local interests

                  Tanzania
                  Lake Victoria Goldfields
                  Conflict between large and small scale miners


Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region


                  Country
                  Project
                  Reasoning

                  Kyrgyz Republic
                  Kumtor Gold Mine

                  Romania
                  Mining Closure and Social Mitigation project

                  Russia
                  Julietta- Small Gold Mine



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