Eskom Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Demonstration Power Plant EIA
GIBB was appointed by Eskom Holdings Limited to undertake the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and compile an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the proposed 400MW(t) Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Demonstration Power Plant (PBMR DPP) 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
- Sensitivity assessment and establishment of significance of impacts
- Development of mitigation measures
Key Features
- Management of a controversial and emotive project
- Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment
- Complex public participation
- Management of numerous specialist studies
- Compilation of an Environmental Management Plan for the construction, operation and decommissioning phases of the development