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Strategic Environmental Assessment
for Shale Gas Development
SANBI Biodiversity Planning Forum
Greg Schreiner (CSIR)
24 June 2015 [email protected]
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In brief
• R12.5-M over 24 months commissioned by DEA
• South African government has made high-level
public commitments to shale gas exploration
• If the exploration phase yields successful
deposits, government may well consider
development of those resources at a significant
scale
• South Africa needs be in a position to make the
decisions relevant to that choice in a responsible
manner
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Guiding principles
• Salience: Address all the material
issues and be fit for purpose
• Legitimacy: Authorised and seen to be
an independent, transparent and fair
process
• Credibility: Evidence-based process.
Integrative Specialist Teams, expert and
stakeholder review
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SEA objectives
Objectives:
• Undertake a scientific assessment drawing on
multiple experts
• Address ALL material risks and opportunities
• Identify high risk activities and sensitive/vulnerable
areas across different development scenarios
• Define regional social and ecological limits
• Provide a decision-making framework for the
regulation of shale gas activities
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Study area
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What to assess? Development scenarios
2016 2055
No
min
al r
isk
S1 Reference
low
high
2035 2025
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Risk assessment approach
• Risk is the intersection between exposure (probability*consequence) and
vulnerability (which includes capacity to adapt and mitigate)
• Based on expert assessment in a shared language between specialist
groups to promote consistency
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Integrative Specialist Teams
• The assessment will draw
acknowledged author from
research organisations, academia,
civil society and the private sector.
• It will undergo two rounds of
review: First by independent
expert reviewers, then by
stakeholders.
• Integrating Authors allocated
nominal time stipends, other
Authors will have their
disbursements costs covered.
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Strategic issues
• The ‘Environment’ includes social, economic and biophysical
spheres. Strategic Issues include:
Water Resources (Surface & Subsurface) Waste Management
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Spatial Planning
Air Quality & GHG Emissions ‘Sense of place’ (values assessment)
Social Fabric Economics (including tourism)
Geophysics Energy Planning
Heritage Resources Agriculture
Visual, Noise & Electromagnetics
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SEA governance
Project Executive Committee
Process Custodians Group
Project Team
General stakeholders Expert Reviewers
Lead Integrating Author
Contributing Author
Corresponding Author
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SEA process
PHASE 1
Define shale gas
activities and
scenarios
PHASE 2
Scientific assessment
based on risk
approach
PHASE 3
Decision-making
framework for
government
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SEA outcomes
• Risk assessment with mitigating potential
• Sensitivity analyses spatially represented
• Limits or thresholds of change in study area
• Guidelines for permitting processes
• Monitoring protocols
• EMPr principles
• Minimum EIA requirements