Environmental and Social Impact Assessment - Gibe III

Gibe III – Environmental and Social Impact Assessment 300 ENV R CS 002 C - A9003099
The key part of the assessment study is Chapter 7, in which all the potential negative effects generated by the
project on Physical, Biological and Socio-Economical Environment have been considered in relation with
the impacted area (upstream or downstream the new dam). Mitigation actions, representing the ways to
reduce the impacts on a specified target, allowing to find out ways to guarantee basic health and safety
requirements, are indicated.
Chapter 8 reports public consultations and participation briefings and meetings, carried out since the middle
of 2006 to the issue of this report, which have taken place at the local, regional, and federal levels, in order to
give to the people the possibility to full consultation and to the expression of their views in the planning and
implementation of environmental policies and projects that affect them directly.
In order to understand the Environmental Impact Assessment of the project in relationship with other
hydroelectric projects in Ethiopia, in Chapter 9 an environmental comparison has been performed between
Gilgel Gibe III Hydroelectric power project and the hydroelectric projects considered in the Ethiopian Power
System Expansion Master Plan (EPSEMP) signed in 1999 between the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation
(EEPCO) and BKS Acres.
In the Chapters 10 and 11 describes EMP (Environmental Management Plan) and EMP (Environmental
Monitoring Plan) have been outlined referring to Gibe III hydroelectric project, particularly dealing with
management and monitoring of the negative effects on human people.
Chapter 12 consists in the Environmental cost evaluation result, considering and quantifying all the eventual
environmental costs that can descend from the realization of the project.
Conclusions and recommendations about Gibe III hydroelectric power project are summarized in the Chapter
13, while the Chapter 14 lists the references of the present ESIA study.
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