Environmental Impact Assessment Notes

Lecture 10: Environmental Management Plans and Monitoring
 Environmental management plan and monitoring are used interchangeably.
o Comprehensive and structured documented that outlines strategies, actions
and measures to effectively manage and mitigate the environmental impacts
and risk associated with a specific project.
 Balancing economic growth and environmental protection
 Preserving biodiversity – targeted at different section (resources)
 Regulatory compliance
 If wasn’t and then now can be adopted (changed over last 10
years, mining applications originally didn’t have EMPrs but not
law that adopt)
 Enhancing public engagement and participation
 Review by different stakeholders – open decision making and
provide input of different perspectives and local indigenous
knowledge.
 Long term sustainability
 Prevent short term gains.
 Minimise environmental liabilities.
 Provide strategies to mitigate and access the impacts that are
happening during the construction.
 Additional impact then can amend EMPr and can have long
term monitoring.
 Enhancing cooperate social responsibility.
 Offsets that pay into.
 Encourage innovation.
 More environmentally friendly technologies and try not
restricting the type of monitoring and mitigation that is taking
place.
 Leave mitigation open to allow for best practice to take place.
 Adapting to climate change.
 Managing water resources, climate resilient infrastructure.
 Different ways monitoring the effects of climate change –
increased rainfall resulting to increased erosion.
 Global sustainability goals.
 All 17 may not be applicable – just include what is relevant.


 Structure framework to allow for the triple bottom line.
 Compliance monitoring in annual reporting – then not just green washing
because it is real life monitoring.
o Percentage wise what is the base line.

Role of EMPrs:
 Early identification of impacts
o Mitigation measures are specific.
 Targeted mitigation measures.
 Best practices and technologies.
 Monitoring and reporting.

, o Get submitted to department at frequency that defined and gets sent to
interested and affected parties – enhance stakeholder engagement.
 Contingency planning.
o Emergency that happened not in draft then must look at this – not looked at in
authorisation but have impact.
 Conservation of resources.
 Promotion of suitable practices
 Long-term perspective.
 Adaption to changing conditions.


Developing and implementing EMPrs
 Define and scoping.
 Identifying proposed mitigation
 Public participation and the feedback gets put into.
 Prioritise based on the effectiveness of the mitigation.
 Design
o Project description
o Stakeholder engagement
 Indicate where the compliance audits are submitted to.
 Will state which department and who needs to engage with
o EIA
o Mitigation measures
o Monitoring and reporting
 Parameters for effectiveness and plan for the collection and frequency
of mitigation measures.
 Dust monitoring every 6 months and give the type of methodology
used and this will be put under the different roles and responsibilities.
o Legal and regulatory compliance
 Algins with the relevant environmental laws, regulations, and
standards
 Verify the necessary permits and approvals are obtained before the
implementation of the project.
o Contingency planning
 Emergency that leads to environmental impacts and the
strategies for immediate response and recovery.
 If wasn’t in the past, then the present has to provide mitigation
measures.
o Implementation
 Train personnel of the roles and responsibilities regarding
environmental management.
 Toolbox talks – indicate the no go areas and educate on other
information and requirements.
 How to manage water resources of the site, how to manage
removal of vegetation.
o Stakeholder communication
 Mitigation measures and progress.
 What are the requirements of the EMP
o Ongoing review and adjustment.