6.0 Project on Environment Impacts (10 pts in total) 6.1 Explain Final List of 1

6.0 Project on Environment Impacts (10 pts in total)
6.1 Explain Final List of 10 Project Activities/6 Accidental Events with Rationale (Table 1A & B)
(1pt)
6.2 Explain Final List of 12 VECs (Table 2) (1pt)
6.3 Spatial and Temporal Bounding of VECs (2pts + 0.5pt for mapping)
6.3.1 Environment 1 (Table 3)-construction and operation phase
6.3.2 Environment 2 (Table 4)- construction and operation phase
6.4 Environment 1: Cross Impact Matrices for Construction and Operation (Tables 5A and B)
(2pts) Discuss matrix.
6.5 Environment 2: Cross Impact Matrices for Construction and Operation (Tables 6A and 6B)
(2pts) Discuss matrix.
QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 6 (3 x 0.5 = 1.5pts)
6-A. Was it easier to complete the spatial or temporal bounding? Why?
6-B. What do you think are the three most important sources of error with cross-impact
matrices?
6-C. Do any of the impacts you identified have the potential to be ‘significant’ and even stop
the project? Explain with reference to your previous tables.
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7.0 Other Categories of Impacts (4.5pts in total)
7.1 Describe the Environment on Project Impacts (Table 7) (1pt)
7.2 Describe 6 Cumulative Impacts that could interact with Project impacts (Table 8) (1pt)
7.3 Describe the Scoping Issues (1pt)
7.3.1 Stakeholder Response to Assessment Results in Tables 5-8 (Table 9A)
7.3.2 Remaining Scoping Issues (Table 9B)
QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 7 (each answer 0.5 pts. 1.5pts in total)
7-A. Do any of the Environment on Project Impacts have the potential to be significant?
Explain
7-B. Can you foresee any way that the project would be stopped because it greatly
exacerbates ongoing cumulative impacts in the region? Explain
7-C. Do you envision that any of the stakeholders will try to push the project into a more
rigorous assessment level or that any of the remaining scoping issues could stop the
project? Explain
8.0 Environmental Protection Plan (6 pts in total)
8.1 Mitigation and Residual Impacts: (4pts)
List all of your impacts (caused only by project activities not accidents) with a score of -3 to -5 in
Tables 10A and 10B; one for each environment. For each large negative impact, if possible, suggest
a reasonable, technically-feasible, and affordable mitigation measure or set of mitigation measures
to reduce or eliminate these impacts. Fill in Tables 10A and 10B to determine your residual
impacts. You may not be able to fit everything you want to say about mitigation in a table, and
you may need to add supplementary text, figures, maps, descriptions of technology, etc. Put effort
into mitigation; this is the one of the most important places in the EMP where you can get the
proponent to reduce impacts and lessen environmental damage. Estimate how well your proposed
mitigation measures will reduce the original impacts you scored. Discuss your residual impacts in
detail.
8.2 Enhancement: (1pt) for each environment discussed two ways that you could improve
any of the impacts through specific enhancement measures.
8.3 Environmental Protection Plan: (1pt) Prepare a set of general “good environmental
housekeeping” instructions (at least 5) for the construction phase in each environment so that the
workers constructing the project will be informed as to what sound environmental measures they
should employ other than the mitigation and enhancement measures you have described above.
9.0 Environmental Management Plan (4 pts in total) (DO ONE OF A or B or C)
EMP’s vary greatly in the number of components and amount of detail they contain. Not all
projects require all potential EMP components. In this tradition, prepare a contingency plan or a
compensation plan or a monitoring plan after you decide which one would be most relevant for
the successful environmental management of your project.
Option A Prepare a Contingency Plan for Construction and Operation (4pts)
Write a contingency plan for the two worse accidents-one accident in the construction phase and
one for the operation phase you have identified in Tables 1A and 2A above. Assume each accident
will occur at least once during its respective phase of the project. You can make tables for your
plans if you wish.
Give the following information for each plan you may want to think in sequence: response,
resumption, recovery, and restoration as appropriate for the accident under consideration. Try to
ensure that people on site dealing with the accident have the fewest decisions to make and all
appropriate information is readily available and well-organized in the emergency.
1. How the accident will most likely be detected and by whom?
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2. What will be the chain of command to deal with it?
3. What actions will be taken?
4. What equipment and supplies will be needed and where will they be stored?
5. How will regulators and other officials be informed?
6. How will the public be informed?
7. What will the potential residual damage be?
Option B Compensation Plan (4pts)
Write a Compensation Plan for the worse impact you have in Tables 10A and 10B that cannot be
mitigated or only weakly mitigated. Include the following items:
1. What principles will the compensation plan be based upon?
2. What environmental damage is to be compensated?
3. Who is to be compensated?
4. How much compensation will be paid over what period of time and under what payment
conditions?
5. Are there limits to total compensation payments?
6. How will the payees document their burden of proof?
7. How will the Compensation Committee be formulated and operate?
Option C Environmental Effects Monitoring (4pts)
Select 2 biophysical VECs that will be monitored during the Construction Phase and two during the
Operation Phase-one in each environment and project phase-4 in total. For each one, describe the
following:
1. What is the rationale for why these VECs require ongoing monitoring.
2. Is there any existing policy or plans for these VEC’s? i.e. protected species acts for a species
of importance VEC
3. Who will monitor at what frequency?
4. What field methods will be used?
5. What laboratory methods be used?
6. How will Quality Assurance/Quality Control be maintained?
7. How will the data be analyzed?
8. How will results be reported?
9. Who is responsible to write the report and who will receive it?
10.How will actions be taken if results are not as predicted and/or they indicate further
environmental damage?
10. Your Final EIA Advice (0.5 pt in total)
Summarize your advice to the Proponent, Regulators and various Stakeholders on how
environmentally sound you believe the project to be, and whether you think its overall benefits
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outweigh its negative environmental impacts and risks or not. Advise whether the project should
proceed, proceed with modifications, undergo additional EIA such as a panel, or that the project
should be outright rejected. Be as detailed as possible and especially clarify whether there are
potentially significant impacts that affect your decision and what follow-up measures you deem to
be obligatory