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QUESTION
RESPONSE
4
What types of digital technology / approaches are being seen Digital Conference Meeting
System for Technical Review
by the Ministry in relation to the proponent’s / consultants
of EIA
EIA work and EIS documents in the last few years, that were
not present / much less common pre-2020?
Digital Submission of EIS via
dedicated email and website
(www.ead.gov.ng)
Examples could include:
- 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.
- Modelling of noise, air, water pollutant dispersion
Use of Drone for survey data
and site visits by Consultants
Global Positioning System
enabled applications for site
visits
Google Earth application
enabled Satellite imagery
to describe project location
- Satellite imagery, camera / audio traps to presence of
protected species
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?
If so:
Quarterly Environmental
Monitoring Reports
Environmental Compliance
Monitoring Reports
Environmental Audit Report
Reports are via soft and hard
- In what format do developers report environmental data back
copies of Report submitted to
to the Ministry? Examples could include: annual submission
the Ministry
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.
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