Environmental Assessment
Volume A-6
Introduction
Consultation
6.6
FUTURE AND ONGOING CONSULTATIONS
What has been described in the previous sections are consultations undertaken to
date to disclose project details, including of alternatives, to scope issues, and
recently to discuss the results of impact analyses and the efficacy of proposed
mitigations. The EA stage of the consultation process effectively ends with
public review meetings led by the CTE, following submission of the EA. Those
meetings will be organized by government in co-operation with the project.
However, the project proponents will work in close collaboration with
governments, affected people and NGOs, as well as other interested parties to
identify concerns, minimize impacts and enhance benefits over the life of the
project. Indeed many main areas of proposed mitigation require close
collaboration with existing regional management structures, for example for
buffer zone management around the mine and for many of the social mitigations
such as those for training and health. Proponent community liaison staff will
continue to work beyond the EA, into project construction and operations. In
general, future consultation is required as follows:
•
the proponents will involve stakeholders in the implementation of
impact mitigation and benefit enhancement measures across a broad
range of mitigation initiatives;
•
with regards to resettlement specifically, there will be regular meetings
between the resettlement team and affected people, both as communities
and as affected individual households, to plan and implement
resettlement; and
•
the project proponents will put in place a formal grievance mechanism,
to ensure recourse if stakeholders have issues they feel have not been
adequately addressed.
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