Environmental Impact Assessment. Final EIA Report
Environmental Impact Assessment. 2.4.1 The development, application and interpretation of EIA EIA is considered as the procedural corollary to the obligation of pre- vention,110 the most important tool for protecting the environment anti- cipatorily and incorporating environmental consideration into economic 110 According to Xxxxx, ‘EIA itself is a procedure, and of itself neither compels a particular result nor imposes substantive environmental standards’. See Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, ‘Environ- mental Impact Assessment’, in Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx (eds.), Research Handbook on International Environmental Law (Elgar 2010), 227. Xxxx opined that ‘transboundary EIA seems to follow logically from a fundamental concept in international environmental law, Principle 21. Many scholars have pointed out that, to be effective, Principle 21 needs procedural corollaries: an obligation to conduct transboundary EIA to make sure that a proposed activity will not cause transboundary harm, as well as obligations to notify other countries and to consult with them about such projects’. See Xxxx Xxxx, ‘The Myth and Reality of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment’ (2002) 96(2) AJIL 291, 295-96 and Xxxx Xxxx, ‘Assessing the Candidates for a Global Treaty on Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment’ (2003) 12 N.Y.U. Envtl. X. X. 153-168, 154. In the view of Bastmeijer and Xxxxxxxxx, ‘Transboundary EIA is broadly recognized as an important procedural component of the no-harm principle. And there is widespread scholarly consensus that the source state must apply trans- boundary EIA in order to observe the no harm principle’. They further explained, ‘it would be hard for a state to argue that it had acted in due diligence if it had not even studied what the impacts of a proposed project on another state’s environment would be. Hence, should significant harm occur to the affected state, the source state has breached the no-harm principle if it has not conducted a transboundary EIA’. See Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx (eds.), Theory and Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx 2008) 7. 122 Chapter 3 development.111 In the 2010 judgment of the ICJ in the Pulp Xxxxx case, the ICJ declared EIA as a requirement under general international law ‘where there is a risk that the proposed industrial activity may have a significant adverse impact in a transboundary context, in particular, on a shared resource’.112 Yet, there has been a long historical develo...
Environmental Impact Assessment. 4.6.1 It is required by South African Legislation that any person or organisation that proposes to carry out an activity which may have a detrimental effect on the environment, apply to the Department of Environmental Affairs for permission to carry out such an activity. The primary purpose of the Environmental Impact Assessment is to provide the Department of Environmental Affairs with sufficient information about the proposed activity for an informed decision to be made regarding the project and its alternatives. The entire exercise will be carried out by and at the cost of the DEVELOPER and should be approved by the LESSOR and relevant authorities.
Environmental Impact Assessment. 5.1 Prior to the submission of the planning application on 28th January 2015 the applicant submitted a Screening Report, requesting a Screening Opinion for the proposed development from SDC to ascertain whether the development would be ‘EIA development’ and require the submission of an Environmental Statement.
5.2 The Council considered this request, as required by regulation 5(1) of the Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2011 and responded to the request on 8th September 2014.
5.3 In considering the development proposed the views of Natural England, English Heritage, the Environment Agency, Kent County Council Highways and Archaeology, Kent Wildlife Trust and SDC Environmental Health were sought. Responses were received from all consultees and all consultee responses received stated that in their view an EIA was not required. These consultee comments provided guidance for the future application and were made available to the applicant.
5.4 The Screening Opinion concluded that ‘The Local Planning Authority is of the opinion that an Environmental Impact Assessment is not required for the development described for the reasons set out in this letter and the planning application for the proposed development does not need to be accompanied by an Environmental Statement under the 2011 Regulations’
Environmental Impact Assessment. 7.1 The scale of development proposed at Outline stage and its nature required an Environmental Impact Assessment to be submitted in accordance with the 2017 EIA Regulations (as amended). The IRR stage will need to be repeated in order to assess the ES as a revised project. Once this has been completed the applicant will be invited to provide a response to the IRR addressing the clarifications and potential Regulation 25 request information requests raised. Any response provided by the Applicant will then be reviewed by the Local Planning Authority.
7.2 Where necessary, technical meetings relating to key EIA chapters (for example highways, drainage, sustainable energy and air quality) will be arranged outside the monthly meetings. The outcome of such technical meetings would be reported to the core PPA project team.
Environmental Impact Assessment. PanAfrican Tanzania shall undertake an environmental impact assessment study prior to each major operation in the Contract Area, including the drilling of the first well thereon, the costs of which shall be Recoverable Contract Expenses for the purposes of Articles X and XI and Annex D.
Environmental Impact Assessment. The Lenders Independent Engineer would review the permits and licenses required for the construction and operation of the facility. The Environmental Impact Assessment report would be reviewed to address the general quality and accuracy of the environmental assessment of the project, the plume and dispersion modeling techniques and the meteorological data used. Guaranteed Emission levels would also be reviewed. The typical environmental issued to be addressed are: * Erosion Control Measures and other environmental protection measures during construction * Storage and handling of oils and hazardous chemicals during construction and operation. * Provisions for disposal of wastes and control of flooding during plant operation. * Provisions for control of air pollution emissions during plant operation.
Environmental Impact Assessment. 1. Each Party shall maintain appropriate procedures for assessing the impacts of proposed projects that are subject to an action by that Party's central level of government that may cause significant environmental effects, with a view to eliminating, avoiding, minimizing, or mitigating adverse effects.
2. Each Party shall ensure that these procedures provide for the assessment of environmental, economic, health, and social impacts and cumulative impacts, consideration of best available scientific information and if applicable, consideration of traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, and rural or remote communities, and, in accordance with its law, allow for meaningful public participation.
Environmental Impact Assessment. This principle can be further defined as: The relevant competent authorities should reach agreement on who is the most appropriate lead authority for coordinating EIA. The following guidance should be applied during determination of a lead authority to coordinate EIA, based upon Defra guidance on determining a lead competent authority under the Habitats Regulations6: o Where a single technical issue is more important than any other in assessing the impacts of a plan or project, the competent authority with the required technical expertise could lead; o Where there are a large number of complex cross-cutting issues, the competent authority with greatest capacity to undertake the work could lead; o Where a plan or project cuts across administrative boundaries (e.g. between planning authorities), the competent authority with the principal interest could lead. The lead competent authority will then coordinate a decision on whether a shared Environmental Statement can be produced, what the respective roles and responsibilities are, a timetable for work, and how work will be resourced. Each competent authority will need to be satisfied that the Environmental Statement contains the information that it requires. To reduce duplication of effort for all parties during the EIA process, where there is no legal mechanism to formally defer decision making from one competent authority to another (such as under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011), one competent authority should be appointed as the administrative lead. This means that consultation and assessment at the screening and scoping stages of the process is only carried out once and one Environmental Statement covers all relevant EIA regulations. Each competent 5 This is in line with the principles set out in the Environment Agency’s “Guidance for developments requiring planning permission and environmental permits” 6 xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xx/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69580/pb13809- habitats-guidance.pdf authority will need to be satisfied that the Environmental Statement contains the information that it requires. In practice, for a project that is mainly terrestrially based, the LPA may be the overall decision maker with regards to EIA, notwithstanding the fact that the MMO may need to issue separate consents based upon that EIA process. Similarly for a project that is mainly marine based the MMO may be the overall decision maker with reg...
Environmental Impact Assessment. (a) Discharge of the minimum of ecological flows downstream of the last hydropower plant shall be in accordance with Water Permits and EIA, which will be adopted by the Montenegrin Environmental Protection Agency. Minimal ecological flow shall be also requested between the upstream dams and downstream accumulations.
(b) The Xxxxxx River downstream from the last hydropower plant flows through highly urbanized area, whereas it is presented extensive human use. The occurrence of big waves should be kept to a minimum and should be strictly controlled. Therefore, increase and decrease of the oscillations of the water discharge downstream from the last hydropower plant, i.e. daily water drainage curve, shall be in accordance with Water Permits and EIA which shall be adopted by the Montenegrin Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) Seasonal and annual water flows discharged from Xxxxxx HE shall be regulated in the way they decrease to the minimum allowed level the negative influence on the downstream environment. Therefore, water discharge downstream from the last hydropower plant shall be in accordance with Water Permits and EIA, which shall be adopted by the Montenegrin Environmental Protection Agency.
