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Question 4: What types of digital technology
/ approaches are being seen by the Ministry in
relation to the proponent’s / consultants EIA work
and EIS documents in the last few years, that
were not present / much less common pre-2020?
Question 5: Does the Federal Ministry for
Environment have responsibility for the
environmental permitting (and related proponent
generated environmental monitoring & reports)
for operational projects that underwent EIA
during their application for consent?
Examples could include:
If so:
- Drone usage for survey data / site visits /
commitments to future monitoring
- Digital stakeholder engagement - via mobile
technology, online meetings, project websites
- Digital submission of EIS - from PDF documents,
to a dedicated website that provides the
traditional hardcopy EIS content in a digital
format.
A. In what format do developers report
environmental data back to the Ministry?
Examples could include: annual submission of
paper report, email of water quality data on a
monthly basis, live online access for the Ministry
to the developer’s own environmental monitoring
systems.
- Modelling of noise, air, water pollutant dispersion
- Satellite imagery, camera / audio traps to
presence of protected species
Photo: The city of Port Harcourt, located at the southern part of Nigeria
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