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29 Apr 2015

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Lumière Synergie pour le Développement (LSD) and Takkom Jerry Polyvalence Culturelle et Environnmentale

[PDF] Press release: Sendou coal power plant - Complaint against Nykomb Synergetics Development AB for non compliance with the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises

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Lumière Synergie pour le Développement (LSD) and Takkom Jerry Plyvalence Culturelle et Environnmentale have filed complaints today at the Swedish National Contact Point (NCP) against the company Nykomb Synergetics Development AB, which has contracted with the government of Senegal in 2009 for the construction of a coal power plant of 125 MW in Sendou. The Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) performed by the company the same year emphasizes unequivocally significant adverse social and environmental impacts. But they were totally ignored by Nykomb in violation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises...Therefore, the complainants...request in this complaint that the NCP uses its good offices to bring Nykomb to discuss the community concerns through mediation, with a hope to relocate this harmful project...the affected communities by this project have been struggling several years ago to defend their right to work, their right for land and their right to a healthy environment, without having the chance to be heard by neither the Government of Senegal nor the promoters including the African Development Bank and FMO.

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