3 core values of EIA

• Sustainability Results in environmental safeguards.

• Integrity Conforms to agreed standards.
• Utility Provide balanced, credible information for
decision making
EIA regulations

• It defines two schedules of developments

• For Schedule 1 projects
• An EIA must always be carried out.
• For Schedule 2 projects
• An EIA must be carried out if the development is likely to have a
significant impact on the environment by virtue of its nature, size
or location.
Schedule 1 development

• An Environment Statement is required in every case.

• Example :
• Crude oil refineries
• Aerodromes with a runway length of 2,100 meters or more
• Waste disposal installations for the incineration
• Chemical treatment, or landfill of hazardous waste
• Gas pipelines of more than 800mm in diameter and 40 kilometers in
length
• Intensive livestock installations with places for 900 sows, 3,000 pigs,
85,000 broilers or 60,000 hens
Schedule 2 development

• EIA is required only if the project is likely to give rise to significant

environmental effects.
• Examples :
• Developments which include intensive fish farms
• Large pig and poultry units (unless in Schedule 1)
• Mineral extraction, metal processing
• Energy producing installations such as wind farms and hydroelectric
installations
• Chemical, food, textile, rubber and paper industries
• Infrastructure projects, tourist development and waste disposal.
Schedule 2 development

• Threshold of Schedule 2 Projects :

• Projects of a type listed in Schedule 2 which are not in a sensitive
area and are below the threshold of Schedule 2 do not require EIA.
• All Schedule developments are based on thresholds. A proposed
development only becomes a Schedule 1 development where it
exceeds the threshold.
• For example a ‘shipyard’ development only falls within Schedule 2
where ‘the area of new floor space does not exceeds 1,000 square
meters’.
 Three stages of EIA

1. Is the proposed development within a category set out in Schedule 2?

2. If so, either:
• Does it exceed the threshold set out for that category in Schedule 2? Or
• Is it in a ‘sensitive area’ such as a national park.
3. If so, it is likely to have a significant effect on the environment by virtue
of its nature, size or location?
• If the answer to all of the three questions is ‘yes’ then an EIA is required.
• If the answer to any of those questions is ‘no’ then an EIA is not required.