Lukoil Overseas-03/Berezovka

Issues

Sectors

Project

Name: Lukoil Overseas-03/Berezovka

Investments: IFC 9953

Client:

Support: Loans

Country: Kazakhstan

Complaint

IAM: Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)

ID: kazakhstan-lukoil-overseas-03berezovka

Date Filed: May 1, 2008

Date Closed: Oct. 16, 2009

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

In May 2008, two non-governmental organizations (Crude Accountability and Green Salvation Ecological Society) lodged a complaint with CAO on behalf of residents of Berezovka, Kazakhstan, regarding impacts of the project. This was the third complaint filed by the same NGOs against the project. It raises issues regarding IFC’s compliance with policies and guidelines in place at the time of the loan, and the legality of the Kazakh government’s reduction of a Sanitary Protection Zone that encompasses the field. To resolve the complaint, the signatories demanded that the 1,300 residents of Berezvoka be resettled, and that they be compensated for hardships endured since the filing of the first complaint.

Complaint Stages

Timeline

Documents

Name	Category	Description
Appraisal Report: Case of Green Salvation/ Residents in the Village of Berezovka III, Karachaganak Project, Kazakhstan, October 16, 2009	Appraisal	Appraisal Report: Case of Green Salvation/ Residents in the Village of Berezovka III, Karachaganak Project, Kazakhstan, October 16, 2009
English	Eligibility	English
Russian	Eligibility	KPO-3FinalAssessmentReport_Russian.pdf

Involved Groups

Name	Complaints	Group Type
Crude Accountability	4	International CSO
Green Salvation Ecological Society	2	International CSO