Environment Impact Assignment PDF

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12 November 2018
Environment Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment refers to the practice whereby the prospective
environmental effects of a given plan are carefully evaluated while identifying
alternatives to curtail any negative environmental effects (Barthwal, 2012, p. 70). Key
methodologies are point by point in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 as vital instruments for abnormal state environmental
administration and appraisal (Commonwealth Parliament & Parliament House, 2015).
They facilitate the Australian Government to work closely with state and domain
governments in the arranging and evaluation process and consider the arrangement of
state/an area and bureaucratic strategies and systems. Key methodologies give a sensible,
streamlined and predictable way to deal with accomplishing great environmental results,
and incorporate vital evaluations, preservation understandings, respective assertions, and
bioregional arranging (Elliott, 2014, p. 69). This basically defines the need for an
Environment Impact Assessment study before implementation of proposed plans on land
use and/ or modifications. This paper seeks to address 5 alternatives to Endora Inc
Development Company’s (EIDC’s) plan by conducting a comprehensive impact
assessment of such alternatives in leasing a 500-acre land surrounding Menehune Bay in
Hawaii. 300 acres of this land is reported to have been in cultivation, about 10 acres were
occupied by Hawaiian fishponds, and about 40 acres lied an untouched marsh. Nearly 30

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acres surrounding Menehune bay were beach parks open to all but exclusively accessible
to employees of Sierra Sugar Company. The beaches provide attractive and safe
swimming with the popular beach park being very popular on weekends and holidays.
These beaches were maintained by the sugar company. Scuba divers used the beach as a
jump-off point to nearby reefs while on the shores, local fishers were busy with their
fishing activities. This, however, is no longer the case as the beach has been closed down
since the lease came to effect. The EICD plans to develop a three thousand room world-
class destination area.
In the EIA process, consideration of alternatives is among the most critical
elements so as to have a basis for sound decision making while adhering to the
sustainable development principles ("Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Project
Management"). The 5 alternatives for considerations in this paper shall entail:
a) Location/ site alternatives
b) Routing alternatives
c) Site layout alternatives
d) Demand alternatives
e) Input alternatives
Location/ site alternatives
Clearly, the proposed plan by EICD to transform the area into a world-class
destination is not a component of an all-encompassing strategic planning initiative
of the area based on the glaring data and information regarding the usage of the
land on the proposed area/zone("Environmental Impact Assessment: Definition,
Roles and Classification", 2014, p. 5). Implementation of the proposed plan by the

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EICD poses most sensitive consequences and real life disruption on the land use,
economic activities in the area, drainage, recreational activities, social amenities
(Harris & Spickett, 2011, p. 174) as well as ecological modifications, just to
highlight but a few. Implementation of the plan on the proposed site means that
cultivation infrastructures such as irrigation ditches assess and service roads, as
well as ponds, will be completely be destroyed or neglected hence a blow to
cultivation practice by the inhabitants around the area. The Hawaiian fish ponds
occupying about 10 acres will be done away with compromising the food basket
supply of fish in the region while also limiting economic activities in the region
especially for the farmers hence joblessness. Reduced or no supply of fish due to
the closure of these fish ponds means that the demand will shoot as supply will be
near to none hence the residents may have to buy fish at high prices hence
increased cost of living. Also, implementation of the plan at the proposed site
which happens to be within the 40 acres of untouched marsh would mean draining
of the marsh which would result to disruption of the water table within the area
hence compromising water reservoir and availability in the region. The
implantation of the plan also would mean closure and building over the beach
park serving the community with exclusive access to Sierra Sugar Company'
employees. There would not be accessible to outdoor facilities, parking, changing
rooms, and pavilion, toilet and shower areas for the Sierra Sugar Company
employees hence greatly compromising and limiting such facilities and provision
of such amenities essential for the larger community and the employees. Again,
sporting activities such as scuba diving and fishing will be greatly hampered if the