Environment Impact Assessment

ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
ASSESSMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, purpose and background............................................................................................1
Methodology....................................................................................................................................2
Assessment of environmental impact statement..............................................................................3
Range and characteristics of environmental impacts including the treatment of indirect and
cumulative impacts......................................................................................................................3
Appropriateness of methods and techniques used to gather, analyse and present environmental
information..................................................................................................................................4
Approaches used to describe ES and identify uncertainties associated with the project:............5
Appropriateness and clarity of criteria used to make judgements about environmental impact
significance and mitigation methods...........................................................................................6
Assessment of treatment of either social or human health impacts.................................................7
Public participation can be undertaken giving regard to timing and effectiveness of proposed
methods............................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
REREFENCES..............................................................................................................................12

Executive Summary
Purpose: EIS statement helps in describing the effect of an activity upon the environment. In this
report an EIS statement has been created of a project of development of four turbine wind farm
on an agricultural land at a site in order to create valuable assistances to viable improvement of
the project and gain planning consent.
Methodology: Adapted version of the Oxford Brookes review package: 94 criteria, sub-sections
and sections. As a group, section grades were assigned based on subsection grades and key
subsection criteria. Group assigned overall ES grade based on section grades and entire ES key
criteria
Findings: Final ES grade was done on the basis of omission of criteria’s that further resulted in
led to the lowering of the grade.
Conclusion: final grade that was assigned to EIS review of Hemsby wind farm was D. This was
majorly because of various kinds of reasons such as: no public participation took place, genuine
alternatives were considered for this project, Health impacts, accidents and waste generation was
not addressed in fact were ignored and lastly, Mitigation and monitoring measures were not
explicit enough.
Introduction, purpose and background
Environment impact statement can be defined as a document which is prepared in order
to the describe effects of a proposed activity upon the environment (both natural and physical
environment). It further helps in analysing the relationship of people with the environment.
Whereas Environment impact assessment is a process that helps in evaluating likely environment
impact of a development or project taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and
human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse (Ivanova et. al., 2016). The main purpose of
this report is to assess contribution of project though EIA process considering characteristics of
environmental impact, approaches and procedures used to collect, examine the present
environmental data, value of data and information offered together with management of
uncertainties, mitigation methods to reduce negative impact upon environment.
Aim:
The study is to appraise the efficacy of the EIS in order to create valuable assistance to viable
improvement of the project and gain planning consent.
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This project is based upon development of four turbine wind farm on an agricultural land
at a site between the villages of Hemsby and Ormesby St Margaret in Norfolk by SLP Energy
Ltd (Sea & Land Power and Energy Ltd) to Great Yarmouth Borough Council. This wind farm is
a Schedule 2 development i.e. installation of harnessing of wind power for energy production. It
covers overall area of 1.2-kilometre square. This wind farm is expected to generate 10MW
energy. SLP Energy Ltd. is basically a Sea & Land Power and Energy owned subsidiary of
SLP Engineering Limited that is a construction company builds gas platforms for the North Sea
and offshore industry.
Figure 1 Site layout
Methodology
The project under review identified baseline conditions of the site, sensitivity of receptors
that may be affected by changes in the baseline conditions, magnitude of likely changes to the
baselines, significance of effect taking into account sensitivity of receptors and magnitude of
effect, appropriate mitigation measures and significance of residual effects, taking account of any
mitigation measures. For this project an adapted version of the Oxford Brookes University’s
Environmental Impact Statement Review Package was adopted and considered. This package
was completely divided into 8 sections (Carroll et. al., 2019).
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