URP 512 (Environmental Impact Assessment)

Assignment: Using any example of a project, describe in details how the

Environmental Impact Assessment process can be carried out.

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GROUP
A CASE STUDY

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR THE

PROPOSED EASTERN INDUSTRIAL PARK, NJIRU AREA,
 GENERAL DESCRIPTION /PROJECT IDENTIFICATION
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The project concept entails development of Infinity Industrial Park where 200 acres of land
will be bought and serviced with all requisite infrastructure facilities constructed to
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international standards. The park when fully developed is expected to enhance Kenya’s
position as an international competitive and attractive investment location. The Park will be
comprehensively designed and planned to provide an institutional framework, physical
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infrastructure and administrative services that are currently not available elsewhere in the
entire Eastern and Central African region. The actual design components of the proposed
development, as depicted on the architectural drawings attached in this study, include:-
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Creation of the basic and standard infrastructural amenities towards realization of this goal
Construction of numerous godowns and other peripheral amenities Construction of a driveway,
sidewalk and parking lot for vehicles Development utilities (water, drainage, electricity etc)
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 SCREENING
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In their bid comply with the stipulated environment requirements, a registered

Environmental Impact Assessment firm was approached by the proponent, to carry out an
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Environmental Impact Assessment for proposed Eastern Industrial Park and its
accompaniments on Plot L.R. No. 11522 measuring approximately 200 Acres Off Eastern
by-pass road within Njiru area, Nairobi County. This complies with the Legal requirement
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stipulated in the Environmental Management and Coordination Act 1999 and the
subsequent Legal supplement of 2003.

An Environmental Impact Assessment study was carried out and the study handed to
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NEMA on 10th January 2014 an assigned reference NEMA/EIA/PSR/1518. On review, the
Authority saw the need to conduct a thorough Environmental Assessment Study to further
address any possible impacts from this project. The sheer magnitude of the project with a
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possibility of diverse industrial possibilities necessitated the study.
 ENVIRONMENTAL EXAMINATION
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There is a growing concern in Kenya and at global level that many forms of development
activities cause damage to the environment. Development activities have the potential to damage
the natural resources upon which the economies are based. Environmental Impact Assessment is a
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useful tool for protection of the environment from the negative effects of developmental
activities. It is now accepted that development projects must be economically viable, socially
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SCOPING

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The project assessment investigates and analyses the anticipated environmental impacts of the
proposed development in line with the Environmental (Impact Assessment and Audit ) 2003
location of the project including the physical area that may be affected by the project’s activities.
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 IMPACTS MITIGATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
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This chapter highlights the necessary An environmental

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mitigation measures that will be adopted to management/monitoring plan has

prevent or minimize significant negative been developed to assist the

environmental, health and safety impacts proponent in mitigating and

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associated with the activities the project managing environmental impacts

during its construction, operation and associated with the life cycle of the

decommissioning phases. project. The EMP has been

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developed to provide a basis for an
Environmental Management
System
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 SLIDE ONE REVIEW (Public Participation)

Interviews were carried out in the neighbourhood by the use of one on one conversations
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and printed questionnaires to find out all the views from the neighbours’ within Githioko
estate towards the Eastern Industrial Park project.

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THANK
YOU
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FOR
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LISTENING
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