Proposed Executive Board review of Jorethang Loop CDM application needs to include appraisal, stakeholder consultation requirements

RE: A review of proposed CDM project—Jorethang Loop—should include whether it met the stakeholder consultation requirements

Dear CDM Executive Board members,

Jorethang Loop is a 96 MW hydro project in India which the Executive Board will consider reviewing in its 37th meeting.

Comments about the proposed CDM credits for Tala Hydroelectric project in Bhutan and export of hydropower to India

Based on reading of the PDD dated Dec 16, 2007 (as available on the UNFCCC website) for the above project and having monitored India’s power sector over the last few years we reach the conclusion that it will not be appropriate to accept the project for CDM cr

Official CDM project name is "Substitution of grid power generation through transmission of renewable electricity generated in a hydro power generating station"

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Update 17 December, 2007: 3 members of the CDM's Executive Board have requested a review of this project on the basis of concerns over its additionality. The full board will consider the request for review at its 37th meeting 30 Jan-1 Feb 2008.

SANDRP Comments on Project Design Document for the Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project, Sikkim, India

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There are several grounds on which the 880 MW Campos Novos Dam should be rejected: lack of adequate stakeholder consultations (due to suppression of stakeholder voices, including unjustified arrests); illegal practices involved in the development of the project; and blatant non-additionality. 

To: Members of the validation team for the Sondu Miriu Hydro Power Project in Kenya, DNV

From: Bryan Ashe, Earthlife Africa eThekwini, South Africa
Liane Greeff, Environmental Monitoring Group, South Africa
Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley and International Rivers
Betty Obbo, African Rivers Network, Uganda

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CORE Comments on Project Design Document for the Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project, Sikkim, India

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We have perused the PDD as obtained from the website, and found it seriously deficient in key aspects. Our comments below are brief and not comprehensive in addressing every aspect of the PDD.

 

NESPON Comments on Project Design Document for the Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project on the Rangit River in the state of Sikkim, India.

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