Eskom Nuclear Power Station EIA
GIBB was appointed by Eskom Holdings Limited to undertake the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and compile an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for a proposed conventional nuclear power station and associated infrastructure in the Cape region, South Africa.
The services provided include:
- Management, interpretation and consolidation of specialist studies, including geology, hydrology, oceanography, ecology, air quality, archaeology, socio-economics, meteorology, and marine biology
- Facilitation and management of an extensive public participation process involving client, industry, government and private stakeholders
- Alternative analysis of five candidate sites
- Sensitivity assessment and establishment of significance of impacts
- Development of mitigation measures
Key Features
- Alternative site screening and alternative analysis
- Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment
- Extensive public participation
- Management of numerous specialist studies
- Compilation of an Environmental Management Plan for the construction, operational and decommissioning phases of the development