Ecuador: Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) (Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline) - Independent Compliance Assessment of OCP with the World Bank's Environmental and Social Policies
Article from: OGEL 4 (2006), in Pipelines
Abstract
This compliance assessment analyzes [published in 2002, ed.] the extent to which Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados Ecuador S.A. (OCP) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) complies with the World Bank Group's (WBG's) four applicable social and environmental policies[1]. A field trip to Ecuador was made to gather findings; interviews were conducted in the field and elsewhere; and a desk review of relevant documentation available was performed. This paper begins with the WBG's Operational Policy (OP) 4.01: Environmental Assessment Policy. The paramount Analysis of Alternatives needed to ...