Deal #3380

Investors have not kept their word, local people lost land, jobs and have to go to streams to sift for gold (http://en.baomoi.com/Info/What-is-InnovGreen-doing-on-Vietnams-border/3/85931.epi) Regarding the meetings to get people's opinions on the project implementation, people in the district did not agree to lease land to the company for afforestation, but the company continued to implement it because it was licensed by the Provincial People's Committee. see: https://thanhnien.vn/du-an-trong-rung-cua-innovgreen-hien-ra-sao-post852725.html

In Huoi May village, people are sandwiched between the Pu Hoat nature reserve and the land of InnovGreen. “After InnovGreen implemented the project, people were not allowed to let their buffaloes and cows roam freely, so it became more and more difficult for them. The commune has requested many times to recover the land and return it to the people, but it has not been accepted. In Nam Nhoong commune, 80 households of Na Khich and Pu Lau villages are also "hungry" for forest land, while the land allocated to InnovGreen Nghe An Company for the past 10 years has not yielded any results. In Pu Lau village, after being allocated land, InnovGreen Nghe An Company was allowed to plant acacia, but as noted by the reporter, this area is now mainly shrubs, only a few scattered acacia trees remain. see: https://thanhnien.vn/du-an-trong-rung-cua-innovgreen-hien-ra-sao-post852725.html

The allocated land covers forest and upland fallow crop land of 3 villages with the result that more than 300 households had to cut this size of land out of their upland land to make place for the paper pulp project without any compensation.

Mr. Lo Van Vinh comments these events as follows: ‘InnovGreen representatives conducted village meetings with the promise to villagers in 3 Cam Muon villages saying that: “Because the commune is in a remote mountainous area, we will give you support to build welfare facilities such as road, culture houses and help poor children to attend school”, however hitherto we did not receive any support from InnovGreen. Ethnic minority people in our villages live on forest and forest land. From now on, if we are not allowed to enter the forests, and no land for rice and cassava growing is available for us, we will definitely have nothing to do and hunger is unavoidable,’ (VietNamNet, 26th March, 2010, Vietnamese version)