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企业直喊贵,不过IAIA(国际影响评价协会)在南非的前办事处头儿说,因为项目所在地敏感,其实还好啦。。。
The environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Eskom's proposed "Nuclear-1" power plant is expected to cost around R18-million, according to Minister of Public Enterprises Brigitte Mabandla.
In a reply to a question by Democratic Alliance MP Gareth Morgan, Mabandla said the scoping phase investigated five sites for the plant. The detailed phase, now underway, was assessing three of them.
The EIA for Eskom's proposed pebble bed nuclear reactor, planned to be built at Koeberg, is expected to cost around R6,5-million.
The breakdown of the cost for the EIAs would be available only once the process had been completed, because some of the specialist studies would be done at different phases of the EIA, the minister said.
Karen Shippey, past chairperson of the local branch of the International Association of Impact Assessment, said on Thursday the cost of these EIAs was high, but added that it was not surprising.
She said the more sensitive the natural environment and the more contentious the nature of the development proposal, the higher the cost of the EIA.
"They have probably bagged the most contentious project in a fairly sensitive environment," she said.
The more complex the nature of the development, and the more environmentally sensitive the site, the more specialist studies were likely to be needed. If a proposal were contentious, there was usually a greater degree of public involvement. |
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