EIA Screening Tool Sensitivity Theme for Reporting 13 th National Biodiversity Planning Forum 8 June 2016 Environmental Advisory Services Nicolene Fourie Chief GIS Specialist: GIS Operations Directorat: Enterprise Geospatial Information Management E- mail: [email protected]Contribution from Dr Rudi Pretorius
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• Provincial meeting (Gauteng, NC, to come KZN and WC)
• 2016 BPF
Sensitivity Themes Structure
• Sensitivity Themes
• Classes
• Dataset links
Application of Sensitivity Themes
• Screening process
• Screening report
Objective
• Create awareness
• Contributions and input
2014 Regulations: Screening
The 2014 Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (Section 16 (1) (b) (v)) make provision that an application for environmental authorisation must be accompanied inter alia by:
The report generated by the national web based environmental screening tool
Screening can be defined as the process of using spatial environmental data to
determine if applications for Environmental Authorisations (Basic Assessment, Scoping and Environmental Impact Assessment) have considered the major environmental issues in the area where development is being proposed.
Screening tool referred to in regulations is an on-line tool that enables the user to generate a report (the screening report) referred to in the 2014 EIA regulations.
Screening tool report
types
General screening
Env sensitivity
Screening Report flag
environmental sensitivities
Commercial
Wind
SEA
Screening
report based on sensitivity
features and buffers
identified during the SEA process
Commercial
Solar
SEA
Screening report based on sensitivity
features and buffers
identified during the SEA process
Electricity grid
SEA
Mining
Mining and biodiversity
guideline
Based on the Mining and biodiversity
guideline
Nuclear energy
SEA
Fracking
SEA
Aquaculture
SEA
Screening Tool Reporting
2016/17 2017/18
Contribution from Dr Rudi Pretorius
General Screening • Various national and sub-national
environmental datasets for environmental features will be used • Protected areas, NPAES focus