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WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.
Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18
ESIA Report Page 1
PART A BASELINES
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Assignment
With a letter dated November 10, 2011, WAPP General Secretariat, Cotonou, Bénin,
mandated Pöyry Energy Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland with the preparation of the
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Resettlement Action Plan
for the project of rehabilitation of the
64 MW Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant, Liberia.
The effective date of the Contract was defined as the date of this letter, November 10,
2011. The Consultant arrived in Monrovia on November 13, 2011.
According to this contract, Pöyry Energy Ltd., on behalf of WAPP and LEC, will
prepare a full ESIA and ESMP for the Project. The ESIA and ESMP will follow the
requirements of Environment Protection and Management Law of Liberia (Section 8),
dated November 26, 2002 and the Republic of Liberia Environmental Protection
Agency Environmental Impact Assessment Procedural Guidelines as well as applicable
International Standards. The main applicable international standards for the Mt. Coffee
HPP ESIA are the Operational Policies (OPs) of the World Bank (WB; see Chapter 2.4).
The Terms of Reference for this assignment are presented in Annex 1.1.
Work on the assignment officially started with the kick-off meeting held in LEC’s
premises on November 14, 2011.
1.2 Scope of the Report
This is the ESIA Report for Mt. Coffee HPP. The main aims of this Report are:
� To provide a description of the Project.
� To provide the baseline, i.e. a description of the prevailing environmental and
socio-economic situation of the project area, on the basis of the original TOR
and, where applicable, on the precision made in the Scoping Report of March
2012.
� To identify all relevant impacts of the Project on the environment and the human
population of the project area.
� To identify and describe the required mitigation measures.
� To prepare a Draft Environmental and Social Management Plan; this will then
by finalised in a later stage of the assignment, taking into account the
observations from the involved parties.
� To come to an overall conclusion on environmental and social acceptability of
the Project.
According to the TOR, the ESIA also has to evaluate, in the form of a CIA and to the
extent possible with the available information, the cumulative impacts of the entire St.