Environmental impact assessment
An environmental impact assessment (also “OVOS”, the Russian-format EIA) involves identification and recording of direct and indirect impacts of a proposed activity on the environment so that a decision could be made on whether the activity is feasible or possible.
The main purpose of an EIA is to prevent or mitigate the activity’s environmental impact and the associated social, economic and other consequences.
Pursuant to Federal Law No
The EIA serves to meet following objectives:
- Implementation of environmental requirements to the proposed activity; substantiation of environmental and social activities;
- Facilitation of a positive decision to finance the project (development of an international format environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) and development of action plans);
- Successful passing of the state environmental expert review and/or state expert review of design documentation; procurement of a construction permit).
Specific EIA-related activities include:
- Substantiation of national / international criteria of the environmental and social impact assessment (depending on whether the assessment has to be performed in the OVOS / ESIA format);
- A preliminary environmental assessment of the proposed activity;
- Preliminary consultations with stakeholders (identification of participants of the EIA process);
- Consideration of implementation options and alternatives;
- Review of baseline environmental and social studies, environmental engineering surveys;
- EIA-related investigation, an environmental and social impact assessment of the proposed activity;
- Environmental substantiation of impact reduction and/or prevention measures;
- Development of recommendations for a post-project review;
- Research of the public’s perception of the proposed activity;
- Development of environmental and social action plans (ESAP) for an EIA-format assessment;
- Support during the state environmental expert review and/or state expert review of design documentation.
Below is the list of major projects for which SHANECO performed EIA studies:
| Project: | Year: |
| Mining | |
| Bauxite and alumina complex in the Komi Republic (Komi Aluminium) | 2006 |
| Reconstruction of the Abakansky mine. Stripping and mining at -200 and -305 m bgs, Republic of Khakasia | 2011 |
| Follow-up underground mining at the Dzhusinskoye deposit of the pyrite-polymetallic ores, Orenburg region | 2011 |
| Conditions feasibility study for the Kyzyl-Tashtygskoye pyrite-polymetallic deposit with a replacement of reserves as of July 20122, Republic of Tyva | 2011 |
| Substantiation of deposits at the Balkhachsky gold-bearing zone. Preliminary environmental assessment, Kamchatka Krai | 2012 |
| Ak-Sugskoye deposit of porphyry copper ores, Republic of Tyva | 2012 |
| Pravourmiyskoye cassiterite deposit, Khabarovsk region | 2012 |
| Mining and concentration plant. Balkhachsky gold-bearing zone. Underground mine at the Zolotoye deposit. Southern Group site with an accommodation camp, Kamchatka Krai | 2012 |
| Construction of a mining and concentration plant at the Zolotoye deposit, Stage 1, Kamchatka Krai | 2015 |
| Chemical and petrochemical | |
| Kuskovsky Chemical Plant, Moscow | 1999 |
| Explosives plant, Taimyrsky mine, Krasnoyarsk region | 2000 |
| Low-temperature isomerisation unit, RNPK | 2011 |
| EIA of the development master plan for 2012-2021, RNPK | 2012 |
| Metals | |
| EIA of reconstruction of the tailings and water recirculation facilities, Zhirekensky Ferromolybdenum Plant, Chita region | 2008 |
| Modernisation of the metallurgical production area, Stupinskaya Metallurgical Company, Moscow region | 2010 |
| Reconstruction of the elementary sulphur units at the Copper Plant and Nadezhdisnky Metallurgical Plant, Krasnoyarsk region | 2013 |
| Construction of an integrated pipe and steelmaking plant, Trubodetal, Perm region | 2014 |
| Construction materials | |
| Mostermosteklo, Moscow region | 1998 |
| A 2 mtpa cement plant, Tula region | 2011 |
| Babinovsky Cement Plant, Novgorod region | 2011 |
| Reconstruction of the Cesla cement plant, Leningrad region | 2011 |
| Construction of the Alagirsky Cement Plant, UGMK-Cement, North Ossetia | 2012 |
| Construction of a cement plant (12 kt of clinker per day), Tula region | 2014 |
| Construction of a cement plant (5 kt of clinker per day), Rostov region | 2015 |
| Reconstruction of a cement plant (construction of a clay preparation area), HeidelbergCement Rus, Tula region | 2015 |
| Utilities, infrastructure and transport | |
| Frunze Central Aerodrome, Moscow | 1998 |
| The Estosadok-Mzymtinsky water intake facility | 2009 |
| Water intake facility on the Psou river | 2009 |
| Water intake facility on the Beshenka river | 2009 |
| Construction of steam-gas Energy Unit 4, Cherepovetskaya GRES | 2010 |
| Water intake facility at the finish area, Roza Khutor ski resort, Krasnodar region | 2011 |
| Construction of a PSU-800 based Energy Unit 3, Berezovskaya GRES, Krasnoyarsk region | 2012 |
| Construction of a motor road from the Milkovo-Aginsky GOK motorway to the Kungurtsevskoye deposit, Kamchatka Krai | 2012 |
| Construction of an access railway to the Alagirsky cement plant, North Ossetia | 2012 |
| Construction of a second waste disposal section as part of reconstruction of an industrial and domestic waste landfill, Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant, Nizhny Novgorod region | 2014 |
| Development | |
| The Sorochany ski complex, Moscow region | 2001 |
| Urban development of the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye project, Novo-Arkangelskoye, Moscow region |
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| Infrastructure facilities of the Alabushevo special economic zone, Moscow | 2008 |
| Zone D3 of the Skolkovo Centre of Innovations | 2014 |
| Automotive | |
| Construction of a new assembly plant for Niva-2123, Samara region | 2002 |
| Food | |
| A Liggett-Dukat tobacco plant, Moscow | 1996 |
| A Coca Cola Beverages plant, Moscow | 1998 |
| A BAT Yava tobacco plant, Moscow | 2002 |
| A Nestle Kuban plant, Krasnodar region | 2009 |
| A Maggi® brand food factory, Nestle Russia, Vladimir Russia | 2010 |