Scatec
About the company
Scatec
Scatec, formerly SN Power, invests in renewable energy in developing countries.
Scatec is working on the Middle Yeywa Hydropower Project, located in Shan State. The dam is opposed by local residents and will result in displacement and environmental damage.
Nang San San Aye, a Shan State MP, has stated: “We urge foreign countries to stop promoting and investing in dams in Burma’s war zones. It is fuelling conflict, and undermining efforts to seek peace.”
Contact:
Roar Haugland
EVP Sustainable Business and HSSE
Scatec ASA
P.O. box 4156
N-0217 Oslo
Norway
Sources:
Shan Human Rights Foundation report 2016
https://www.shanhumanrights.org/eng/images/2016/pdf/03-30-2016-Namtu–English.pdf
Notified 30th November 2018
Added to the Dirty List 11 December 2018
Follow up letter sent 19th January 2022
Reply received from Scatec 24 January 2022
Updated 28 March 2022 to remove the information that Scatec is owned by Norfund after Norfund confirmed that it is not among the owners of Scatec. Norfund used to own SN Power, but has sold the company to Scatec – https://www.norfund.no/norfund-sells-sn-power/
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.