Participation in the EIA process has also been found to be weak. For example,
obtaining EIA documents can be excessively expensive - as in the case of the West
Seti Hydropower project where the price of $625 was requested in order to receive the
EIA report. Besides the high cost of obtaining EIA documents, these reports are
mostly in prepared in English, with much of the content considered to be too technical
to be accessible to the general public and people affected by the project. NGOs and
other civil society organisations have found it similarly difficult to review all these
technical documents, or to provide written comments and participate in the decision
making process. Even when comments have been provided, there has been no
additional feedback.