environmental impact assessment

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environmental impact assessment

in planning law, in some circumstances where a development is likely to have significant effects on the environment, a necessary examination of environmental issues before planning can be granted.

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The minister noted that the project has been scaled down and relocation abroad is an option, should it still fail to win the approval for its environmental impact assessment or the approval be attached with stringent conditions, unacceptable to private-sector shareholders.

Kuokuang petrochemical project may be relocated abroad

3 billion without carrying out any Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of it.

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He attributed the situation to lack of effective monitoring and environmental auditing and valuation mechanism by government departments, adding that despite many projects undergoing an environmental impact assessment process, there was no data to check whether they were operating within the stipulated environmental guidelines.

Zambia blasts foreign firms for violating environmental laws

Saving the spillway REGARDING Butterley Spillway Kirklees Council has decided to consider withdrawing part of its reason for refusal in light of new information submitted by Yorkshire Water in its Environmental Impact Assessment.

Saving the spillway; FEEDBACK

Regarding the obligations from the environmental aspect, very important for the energy sector are the requirements in the Law on Environment concerning the environmental impact assessment (EIA), system for integrated license for integrated prevention and pollution control (IPPC), environmental plans for management and environmental audits, including eco-labeling

Integrated environmental licenses for energy objects too

In parallel, the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive aims to ensure that any project likely to have a significant effect on the environment is adequately assessed before being approved.

EC Confirms Suing Bulgaria over Nature Protection Laws

The company has asked Vale planners to determine whether an Environmental Impact Assessment will have to be undertaken as part of the planning application.

Impact fears over 'new neighbourhood'

The National Impact Assessment Programme (NIAP) is being implemented in various parts of Pakistan and AJK jointly by the Planning Commission and Ministry of Climate Change, the provincial governments, AJK & GB governments and Environmental Protection Agencies, to strengthening of Environmental Impact Assessment process and introducing Strategic Environmental Assessment", Sardar Idrees Mehmood, Deputy Director EPA, AJK, told here Monday.

EPA to host workshop on Strategic Environmental Assessment

The Defense Ministry's attempt to file with the Okinawa prefectural government a key environmental impact assessment report for relocating the U.

Protesters block gov't report on environment for Futenma base relocation

J J MORAN A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers Transport Scotland Trunk Roads Network Management Buchanan House, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow G4 0HF 10 October 2014 A83 HIGH GLEN CROE RESURFACING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT DETERMINATION BY THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS UNDER SECTIONS 20A AND 55A OF THE ROADS (SCOTLAND) ACT 1984 THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS hereby give notice that they have determined that their proposal to resurface 2080m of the A83 Trunk Road, approximately 3.

TRANSPORT SCOTLAND A83 TARBET WEST ENVIRONMENTAL [...]; Public Notices

The European Commission has allowed Bulgaria to require a favorable environmental impact assessment before exploring for shale gas, announced the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment Tuesday.

EC Advises Members to Be Cautious with Shale Gas - Bulgarian Ministry

This volume explains best practices for practitioners and decision makers in government, consulting, and the private sector to use in developing five different types of environmental impact assessments for projects: a cumulative impact assessment; an assessment of greenhouse gas emission and climate change impacts; risk assessments and accident analyses; social impact assessment, including environmental justice; and the international environmental impact assessment process.