EIA for Dawei project out next year
The environmental impact assessment for Myanmar's Dawei deep-sea port and economic zone project will be ready early next year, sources said yesterday.
“Right now the draft and field surveys are complete,” said Tin Maung Swe, chairwoman of the supporting team for the development of the zone. “The environmental management plan is under way and the EIA is being finalised.
“Two public hearings will be held and they can all be completed in January or February.”
Zaw Aung, a researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, said an EIA would show a project’s positive and negative impacts on the environment before construction begins.
Team Engineering Group, Environmental Research Group and Pamya Consultant from Thailand have been hired for the detailed assessment of the environmental impact of the project, which covers 250 square metres in Ye Phyu township in southern Myanmar.
The multibillion-baht zone will be established in accordance with Myanmar’s Special Economic Zone Law.
Most Myanmar government projects in the past never had to produce a EIA before they were built. Projects such as the Kaladan River All-Around Development, for instance, produced their environmental assessments after they had already started.
