PROPOSED AGENDA ESKOM HOLDINGS LIMITED 1. Sign attendance register and discussion ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT with team: 17:00 – 17:50 ASSESSMENT (EIA) FOR A PROPOSED 2. Welcome and introductions: 18:00 – 18:10 NUCLEAR POWER STATION AND 3. Presentation of EIA and EMP findings: ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE DEA REF. No.:12/12/20/944 18:10 – 19:00 4. Discussion: 19h00 – 19:50 EIA Phase Public Meeting: Review of Draft Environmental Impact Report 5. Way forward and close: 19:50 – 20:00 March / April 2010 Slide 1 Slide 2 MEETING CONDUCT MEETING OBJECTIVES • Please wait for the discussion session to ask questions • The focus of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for • Introduce yourselves prior to asking a question and Interested and Affected Parties (I&APs) to comment on the findings of the EIA and the Draft Environmental Impact indicate your specific interest Assessment Report (EIR) • You are welcome to ask the question in your mother • Provide an opportunity for I&APs to seek further clarity on the tongue. Presentations will be in English proposed project, the EIA phase and the Draft EIR • One person at a time • Provide I&APs with an opportunity for interaction with the EIA • Work through the facilitator team • Show respect • Recording of issues - the proceedings will be recorded and used to compile meeting minutes. Comments will be included • Focus on the issue not the person Please switch in the Issues and Response Report (IRR) and changes will be off all cell • Be constructive made to the Final EIR, where necessary phones! • Agree to disagree Slide 3 Slide 4 1
KEY ISSUES KEY ISSUES • Marine life could potentially be adversely affected by altered • Some people are opposed to and others are in sea temperature and turbulence caused by inflow and output favour of a nuclear power station at Bantamsklip, of sea water to the plant Thyspunt and Duynefontein • Concern that commercial and recreational fishing may be negatively impacted • Concerns about the potential impacts on human health and safety • Light pollution • Concerns about potential drop in property values • Local residents share a deep-felt connection to the • Concern about cost of constructing a power station area and have a strong “sense of place” • Some people expressed a lack of trust in the EIA • A power station could potentially be unsightly • Storage of hazardous waste • Tourism is linked to conservation and preservation • Renewable (‘green’) energy (e.g. wind, solar) vs. nuclear of the coastline Slide 5 Slide 6 PROJECT MOTIVATION PROPOSED ACTIVITY • Increasing demand for electricity (> 4% growth per • Eskom proposes the construction, operation and annum) decommissioning of a conventional nuclear power station and associated infrastructure • Projected requirement for more than 40 000 MW of either in the Eastern or Western Cape new electricity generating capacity over the next 20 years • A nuclear power station of the Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) type technology e.g. • In SA only coal and nuclear power are solutions for Koeberg Power Station base load generation, while gas turbines, hydroelectric power stations and pumped storage schemes are used • The transmission power lines are subject to for peaking and emergency electricity generation separate environmental authorisation processes Slide 7 Slide 8 2
PROJECT BACKGROUND TRANSMISSION (TX) LINE EIAs • The power station and directly associated infrastructure will require approximately 31 ha • Bantamsklip – Scoping phase has been • The footprint assessed makes provision for the potential extended to include Multi-stakeholder future expansion of a power station, to 10 000 MW or the maximum carrying capacity Workshops and additional public consultation. • The proposed nuclear power station will include nuclear Revised Draft Scoping Report will be made reactor, turbine complex, spent fuel, nuclear fuel storage available for public comment facilities, waste handling facilities, intake and outfall pipelines, desalinisation plant and auxiliary service infrastructure • Thyspunt – Scoping Report accepted by • Should the proposed project be authorised, it is anticipated Authorities and EIA phase has commenced that construction of the station could commence in 2011 with the first unit being commissioned in 2018 • Duynefontein – Scoping Report accepted by Authorities and EIA phase has commenced Slide 9 Slide 10 ENVELOPE OF CRITERIA • Detailed description of proposed nuclear plant is not available, as preferred supplier has not been selected • Approach used has been to specify enveloping environmental and other relevant requirements, to which the power station design and placement on site must comply • Enveloping criteria represent the most conservative parameters associated with the various plant alternatives within the available PWR technology Slide 11 Slide 12 3
SCOPING PHASE EIA process comprises the Scoping and EIA phases . • Approval of the Scoping Report • Application was submitted to the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) in May 2007 and amended in July 2008 for a single nuclear power station of up to 4 000 MW • DEA approved the Scoping Report - November 2008 • In mid 2009, after publication of the amended EIA Regulations, Eskom announced that it was considering amending its application to include more than one nuclear power station. Eskom subsequently decided not to pursue the amendment of the application Slide 13 Slide 14 SITES INVESTIGATED SITE SELECTION SCOPING PHASE • In line with Eskom’s intention to investigate the potential development of up to 20 000 MW of nuclear power generating capacity an application for the second nuclear power station may be submitted soon after the submission of the Final EIR for Nuclear-1 • Approval of the Plan of Study for EIA • The Plan of Study (PoS) for EIA was made available for two rounds of public comment • DEA approved Final PoS for EIA - January 2010 • The Scoping phase of the EIA process is complete Slide 15 Slide 16 4
ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS METHODOLOGY • The potential impacts assessed were based on: • Independent specialists assessed potential positive and negative impacts with and – Issues identified by I&APs during the public without mitigation participation process (PPP) – Issues identified by specialists through research • According to the specialists, all potential – Experience of relevant specialists with projects of negative impacts can be mitigated a similar nature or in a similar environment – Consultation with local specialists – Environmental resources and conditions identified • There are no fatal flaws at any of the during site surveys alternative sites Slide 17 Slide 18 SPECIALIST STUDIES SPECIALIST STUDIES • Physical Impacts Geology and geological risk Seismological risk • Socio-economic Impacts Geo-hydrology Social Geotechnical characteristics Economic Noise • Biophysical Impacts Visual Dune geomorphology Heritage and cultural resources Flora Waste Fauna (Invertebrate and Vertebrate) Tourism Hydrology Freshwater ecosystems • As per the NNR / DEA co-operative agreement, a Oceanographic conditions number of specialist studies related to human Marine biology health risk and safety were commissioned and included in this EIR for information (4 studies) Air quality Assessment of the1:100 year floodline Slide 19 Slide 20 5
SPECIALIST STUDY RESULTS SPECIALIST STUDY RESULTS • Impacts on Dune Geomorphology • Seismological Risk • Groundwater does not ‘daylight’ at the Seismic studies indicate that the design basis Duynefontein or Bantamsklip sites: access roads for the respective sites in terms of peak and transmission lines can be built across the ground acceleration values (PGA) are as mobile dunes at these sites follows: • Access roads and transmission lines at Duynefontein can be built across the artificially – Duynefontein – PGA ~0.30 g vegetated and vegetated parabolic dunefields – – Bantamsklip - PGA ~0.23 g provided dunes are stabilised • The interaction between dune systems and – Thyspunt - PGA ~0.16 g wetlands is complex at Thyspunt, since groundwater ‘daylights’ in many inter-dune areas Slide 21 Slide 22 SPECIALIST STUDY RESULTS • Impacts on Dune Geomorphology • As a result of the location of the proposed construction of transmission lines, haul roads and conveyor belts between the nuclear power station in the south and the HV yard in the north, the negative potential impacts on dune geomorphology at Thyspunt are more extensive than at the other two sites Aproximate position of Thyspunt Nuclear Power Station site Slide 23 Slide 24 6
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