Environmental Assessment
Volume C-5.1
Slurry Pipeline
Socioeconomics
Ambatovy Project
170
January 2006
Table 5.1-1 Impact Mitigation and Benefit Enhancement Measures
Pipeline
Impact
Impact Mitigation and Benefit Enhancement Measures
Limited potential for
employment.
Local Resource Development Initiative (LRDI) section specific to pipeline
construction (modalities for identifying potential employees).
Increased access
infrastructure for local
populations.
Pending negotiation with communities and regional planning authorities,
permanent and maintained pipeline access roads that can be used by local
populations.
Improved well-being
associated with limited
employment and with
provision of access roads.
None required additional to LRDI and access roads.
Households and livelihood
resources affected by
pipeline land requirements.
Detailed alignment of pipeline will avoid villages, individual households and
agriculture land to the extent possible. Where this is not possible,
compensation -- or at the limit resettlement -- commensurate with the level of
loss of livelihood resources will be compensated.
Construction disturbances to
land surfaces, with
consequent erosion effects
on land and water livelihood
resources.
Erosion control measures will be applied along with revegetation. To the extent
that livelihood resources are inadvertently affected, compensation
commensurate with degree of loss will be made.
Construction disturbances to
land and water transport
routes.
Provision of alternative routes for people, animals and boats. There will be no
significant operations phase impacts as pipeline will be buried.
Other disturbance effects
associated with construction
including noise, dust,
changes to air quality, etc.
Equipment maintenance and operating practices.
Temporary presence of out-
of-area construction
workers, with consequent
effects on public health and
safety and potential for
social conflict.
Provision of all food and accommodation, medical and other services directly to
out of area workforces. Workforce management, including cross cultural
training and enforced codes of conduct.
Restrictions on land use
along right-of-way.
Compensation negotiated with land users to reflect value of livelihood
resources lost over time period of loss.
Effects associated with any
real or perceived risk of
accidents associated with
the pipeline
Public education on actual risks and emergency response planning.
Negative effects of
increased access including
migration, pressures on
livelihood resources, etc.
No direct mitigation practical. Access road is expected to overall result in
positive effects on livelihoods along the pipeline route. Ongoing consultation
and grievance mechanism can capture any particularly negative effects
attributable to the project for adaptive management.
The potential impacts on business are considered to be of low magnitude,
positive, short term, and of negligible consequence although individual
businesses may experience benefits of low consequence.
