concept EIA-rapport - Staatsolie

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Performance Standard (PS) Aims and objectives
PS 4: Community Health,
Safety and Security
PS 5: Land Acquisition and
Involuntary Resettlement
PS 6: Biodiversity Conservation
and Sustainable Natural
Resource Management
PS 7: Indigenous Peoples
PS 8: Cultural Heritage
Aims to minimise and manage health and safety risks to local
communities from project-related activities.
Requires that the need for involuntary resettlement be avoided or
minimised and that the negative consequences of involuntary
resettlement be mitigated through appropriate consultation with those
affected and adequate compensation.
Aims to protect and conserve biodiversity and to manage natural
resources sustainably through the integration of conservation needs and
development priorities. The objectives of the standard are premised on
elements of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Promotes respect for the dignity, human rights, aspirations, cultures and
customary livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and requires that adverse
impacts on communities of Indigenous Peoples are avoided or, where
avoidance is not feasible, are minimised, mitigated or compensated for in
a culturally appropriate manner.
The preservation and protection of cultural heritage from adverse impacts
as a result of project activities are the objectives of this standard.
Equitable benefits from the use of cultural heritage in business activities
are also promoted. The standard addresses the removal and project use
of cultural heritage, procedures for the chance finding of cultural heritage,
consultation and participation on the handling of cultural heritage and the
handling of critical cultural heritage, e.g. legally protected cultural
heritage.
Note: Bold text indicates standards that may be relevant to the proposed refinery expansion EIA.
Where applicable, the standards and guidelines will be modified to reflect the scale of the project
and other relevant factors (e.g. time constraints). Selected relevant international guidelines and
case studies will also be taken into account, where appropriate.
2.4 Corporate requirements
Staatsolie has put in place procedures for protecting the environment that adhere to international
standards. An integrated Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policy and Management System is
implemented across all of Staatsolie’s operations to monitor its effects on the health and safety of its
employees, contractors and affected communities, as well as impacts on the environment.
2.5 EIA Process
An EIA is a systematic process to identify, predict and evaluate the environmental 3 effects of a
proposed project. The purpose of an EIA is to:
• Provide information for decision-making on the environmental consequences of proposed
actions by identifying the potentially significant environmental effects and risks of a proposed
project (i.e. ensure that environmental factors are considered in decision-making processes
along with economic and technical factors). This means that the outcome of an EIA process
provides advice to the decision-makers, and is not a final decision in itself; and
• Promote environmentally sound and sustainable development through the identification of
appropriate enhancement and mitigation measures.
Sustainable development has been defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition
is that of the Brundtland Commission (WCED, 1987) : Sustainable development is ‘development that
meets the needs of today’s generation without compromising those of future generations’.
3 ‘Environment’ is used in the broadest sense (including social and cultural aspects of the environment).
REUT/DALC 439414_StaatsoliePipelineEIA_Draft EIA Report_Final June 2012