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Box 2
Mitigation Hierarchy for Planned Activities
Avoid at Source; Reduce at Source: avoiding or reducing at source through the design of the
Project (eg avoiding by siting or re-routing activity away from sensitive areas or reducing by
restricting the working area or changing the time of the activity).
Abate on Site: add something to the design to abate the impact (eg pollution control
equipment).
Abate at Receptor: if an impact cannot be abated on-site then control measures can be
implemented off-site (eg traffic measures).
Repair or Remedy: some impacts involve unavoidable damage to a resource (eg material
storage areas) and these impacts require repair, restoration and reinstatement measures.
Compensate in Kind; Compensate Through Other Means where other mitigation approaches
are not possible or fully effective, then compensation for loss, damage and disturbance might be
appropriate (eg financial compensation for degrading agricultural land and impacting crop
yields). It is emphasised that compensation to individuals with residual impacts to livelihood
or quality of life will generally be non financial and will have a focus on restoring livelihoods.
Box 3
Mitigation Hierarchy for Unplanned Events
Control: this aims to prevent an incident happening or reduce the risk of it happening to as low
as reasonably practicable (ALARP) through reducing the likelihood of the event (eg preventative
maintenance regimes, traffic calming and speed limits, community road safety awareness
training);
Reducing the consequence (eg bunds to contain hazardous substance spills); and
A combination of both of these.
Recovery/Remediation: this includes contingency plans and response, eg Emergency Response
Plans and Procedures.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
Implementation of the findings and outcomes of the EIA process are described
in the EMP for the proposed Project. Elements of this provisional plan will be
taken forward and incorporated into a comprehensive project EMP that will
be used to deliver the project’s health, safety and environmental (EHS)
regulatory compliance objectives and other related commitments. The EMP
provides an outline of the procedures and processes that will be incorporated
into project activities to check and monitor compliance and effectiveness of the
mitigation measures to which Azura Power has committed. The outline EMP
is provided in Chapter 9 of the EIA report. In addition, the EMP is used to
ensure compliance with statutory requirements and corporate safety and
environmental policies. Further to the ESIA, a Risk Assessment of the gas
pipeline spur and power station will be conducted and the results of which
will be incorporated and inform the EMP.
AZURA EDO IPP
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DRAFT EIA REPORT