Topic: EIA

A draft environmental statement relating to the East-West Arterial road has revealed that the cost of building and maintaining the eight-mile road extension to the eastern districts will be more than US$1 billion over the next 50 years.

The Department of Environment, in a statement this week, said it is not to blame for the drawn-out Port Zeus environmental impact assessment.

While government continues to negotiate the financial close on ReGen, work on the environmental impact assessment for the multi-million dollar waste-management project is nearing completion.

The scope of an environmental impact assessment for two sections of the proposed East-West Arterial extension has been expanded to a 1.5-mile radius of the road, rather than one mile as suggested in the original draft, following a public consultation on the controversial project.

A draft document outlining the scope of an upcoming environment impact assessment for the expansion of the East-West Arterial road will examine not just its potential impact on the Central Mangrove Wetlands, but the consequences of not going ahead with the project.

Work on the Environmental Impact Assessment for the multi-million dollar ReGen project at the George Town landfill is on hold, Department of Environment Director Gina Ebanks-Petrie has said.

The long-awaited East-West Arterial extension is moving to the next phase as the National Roads Authority invited bids from firms to conduct an environmental impact assessment for the project.