In October Rio Tinto/Oyu Tolgoi LLC finally produced operational plans required for the multilateral development banks’ funding of the Oyu Tolgoi mining project in the South Gobi in Mongolia.
Their operational plans can be viewed here, including the April 2013 audit by ERM Canada as the banks’ independent consultants: http://ot.mn/en/about-us/environmental-social-impact-assessment/esia (A direct link is here: http://ot.mn/sites/default/files/documents/ESIA_Audit_report.pdf).
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) management are presenting a technical seminar to the Bank’s Executive Directors on the Oyu Tolgoi project (as well as the Simandou iron-ore project in Guinea, and the “strategic partnership” between the IFC and Rio Tinto) just before the Bank’s board meeting on 19th November in Washington DC.
Various civil society organisations, including LMN, have produced a critique of the Oyu Tolgoi audit and Operational Management Plans in time for that meeting. It can be viewed here: CSO review of the OT OMPs