Environmental

Environmental and Community Impact Mitigation Measures

A development project of this size will quite likely cause some impacts to people as well as its surroundings. DOH therefore made a decision to design the project so as to avoid or minimize any likely impact on nearby communities and the environment. DOH’s care in this area led to an approval for its Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIA) from the National Environment Board in 2006.

During the years that had transpired, many changes have been brought to the project area. Accordingly, DOH in 2016 decided to commission a re-assessment of the EIA report aiming to review details where significant changes from the previous conditions have occurred. As a result, findings of the new EIA study were approved by the National Environment Board in 2017.