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the local dumpsites, thereby improving the dump site’s environmental
conditions.
Impact Significance
The impacts of waste handling and disposal during decommissioning will be
regional as the impacts will be experienced beyond the site and immediate
surroundings. The potential impacts will be permanent, as these impacts may
be felt after the decommissioning phase. The overall magnitude of the impact
is therefore considered to be moderate.
The sensitivities of the receptors is considered to be medium.
The overall impact during decommissioning is therefore assessed to be of
moderate significance prior to mitigation.
7.8.4 Impact Description and Significance: Summary
A summary of the impacts of wastes generated by the Project is provided in
Table 7.19 below.
Table 7.19
Summary of Impact Significance Pre-mitigation
Phase Impact Significance (pre-mitigation)
Construction
Operation
Decommissioning
Potential contamination of water
resources and soil
Potential contamination of water
resources and soil
Potential contamination of water
resources and soil
Moderate Negative
Minor Negative
Moderate Negative
7.9 PHYSICAL RESETTLEMENT
7.9.1 Background to the Resettlement Process
The site intended for the Azura-Edo IPP originally comprised two plots of
land. Plot A comprised approximately 70 ha in the Orior and Idunmwowina
communities while Plot B to the east comprised approximately 30 ha in
Ihovbor community. Although the leaders of the Ihovbor community allowed
the valuers chosen by ERM to enumerate the structures on Plot B in August
2011, they subsequently insisted that only Government’s valuers be allowed to
value the structures located on the plot.
Due to the Ihovbor community leaders’ reluctance to permit the project to
conduct its own census and asset inventory during 2011, Azura Power
decided (in October 2011) to alter the footprint of the Project to avoid any
displacement of members of the Ihovbor community. Accordingly, the Project
impacts on Ihovbor are not analysed and therefore this EIA Report does not
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