From dianne Sat Nov 23 01:03:39 1996 Received: (from dianne@localhost) by lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA22747; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:03:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 01:03:38 -0500 (EST) From: Dianne Murray Message-Id: <199611230603.BAA22747@lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> X-within-URL: http://xp9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=7818235&server=dnserver.db96q4&CONTEXT=848728610.8331&hitnum=7 To: dianne@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca Subject: getdoc.xp?recnum=7818235&server=dnserver.db96q4&CONTEXT=848728610.8331&hitnum=7 Status: OR [Previous] [Next] [Hitlist] [Get Thread] [Author Profile] [Post] [Post] [Reply] [LINK][LINK] _________________________________________________________________ Article 8 of 17 Subject: URGENT:Letters to WB,IDB re Yacyreta Dam From: rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Date: 1996/10/15 Message-Id: <5411i9$1adm@news.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.activism.d Resent-From: rich Organization: PACH Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive Originator: rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu Article Segment 1 of 2 (Get All 2 Segments) /** reg.samerica: 1106.0 **/ ** Topic: URGENT:Letters to WB,IDB re Yacyret ** ** Written 4:48 PM Oct 5, 1996 by ax:irn in cdp:reg.samerica ** From: Glenn Switkes /* Written 4:46 PM Oct 5, 1996 by irn in ax:ax.ambiente */ /* ---------- "URGENT:Letters to WB,IDB re Yacyret" ---------- */ REQUEST FOR LETTER WRITNG: (deadline October 13, 1996) Re: Yacyreta Dam Inspection Panel Claim with World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Dear Colleagues and Friends: The following is in relation to the Yacyreta Dam inspection panel claim and a proposed letter of support from the international NGO community addressed to the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank. Hopefully your letter could arrive by October 13 since the first fifteen days after a claim has been subjected to the banks are crucial. Your letter should help the banks take a rigorous attitude toward investigating the charges brought by the claim. Background: Sobrevivencia, Friends of the Earth Paraguay filed a claim Monday, September 30th with the World Bank Inspection Panel and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Investigation Mechanism. Sobrevivencia presented this claim on their own behalf and for people affected by the Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project. The Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project (YHP) is a joint project between Argentina and Paraguay that involves the construction of a large dam, 67 km. in length, on the Parana' River. The project has been plagued by delays, corruption, procurement disputes, political changes, and the reluctance of the Argentine government to provide its share of counterpart financing. The Banks' handling of their loans over a 17-year period display continual violations of their own policies and procedures. The dam as planned will inundate approximately 109,000 hectares in Paraguay and Argentina, including unique river island ecosystems with endemic species. The reservoir has already been partially filled, but the social and environmental assessments were carried out only after the project began. They did not result in adequate mitigation measures for the dams's social impacts: displacement of people who had to abandon their homes and sources of sustenance and health impacts, nor did they adequately resolve the project's devastating environmental impacts caused by loss of unique ecosystems, blocking of fish migrations, and drying of river channels. The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank have provided more than US$1,740,000,000 for the project since 1979. The funding has gone to a binational entity created to manage the project that has proven it has little capacity to respond to the concerns, interests and rights of affected peoples, and has little interest in mitigating the project's enviromental impacts. Attached is a draft letter that Sobrevivencia is asking you to sign to support their claim, addressed to the Presidents of both banks. For more details about the claim or the Yacyreta Dam, please contact: Elias Diaz Pena, Sobrevivencia email: survive@ax.apc.org Glenn Switkes, International Rivers Network glen@nutecnet.com.br or Dana Clark, Center for International Environmental Law, cieldlc@igc.apc.org. If you want to be on the e-mailing list to follow up the process and results of the claim please inform Glenn or Maria Augusta Espinoza at Red Bancos (mespinoza@igc.apc.org). Sobrevivencia has requested that they receive a copy of your correspondence (survive@ax.apc.org) and/or to Red Bancos US Node (mespinoza@igc.apc.org). ==================================================== SAMPLE LETTER: October 1st. , 1996. Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President World Bank 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20433, USA by fax: +202-477-6391 Mr. Enrique Iglesias, President Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Av. NW, Washington, D.C. 20577, USA by fax: +202-623-3614 RE: Inspection Panel and Investigation Mechanism-Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project (Get Next Article Segment) [LINK][LINK] _________________________________________________________________ [Previous] [Next] [Hitlist] [Get Thread] [Author Profile] [Post] [Post] [Reply] _________________________________________________________________ Home Power Search Post to Usenet Ask DN Wizard Help Why use DN? | Advertising Info | New Features! | Policy Stuff Copyright © 1996 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved.