Environmental and Social Due Diligence of New Capital Power Plant
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SFG1794 V2 Public Disclosure Authorized Environmental and Social Due Diligence Public Disclosure Authorized of New Capital Power Plant Prepared by: Integral Consult© Cairo Office: Doha Office: 2075 El Mearaj City, Ring Road, 6th Floor Al Mana Tower B, Al Maadi – Cairo – Egypt Sadd, C-Ring Road, P.O Box. Phone +202 2 25204515 55781 Fax +202 2 25204514 Phone: +974 4466 4203, +974 4455 0483 Public Disclosure Authorized Fax +974 4466 7843 Email: [email protected] www.integral-egypt.com A Member of Environmental Alliance October, 2016 Public Disclosure Authorized DUE DILIGENCE Environmental and Social Due Diligence of New Capital Power Plant Integral Consult Cairo Office: 2075 El Mearaj City, Ring Road, Maadi – Cairo - Egypt Phone +202 25204515 • Fax +202 25204514 Doha Office: 6th Floor Al Mana Tower B, Al Sadd, C-Ring Road, P.O Box. 55781 Phone: +974 4466 4203, +974 4455 0483 Fax +974 4466 7843 Email: [email protected] Environmental and Social Due Diligence for New Capital Power Plant i Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................. 1 1.1 Scope and purpose of review............................................................................. 1 1.2 Methodology ..................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Status of requested project documentation....................................................... 2 1.4 Power plant status .................................................................................................3 2. Project Description ............................................................................................. 4 2.1 Site Description ......................................................................................................4 2.2 Technical Description.............................................................................................6 2.3 Supplying Natural Gas Pipelines ............................................................................6 3. Summary of Due diligence activities .........................................................................8 3.1 Meetings ........................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Desk Review ...........................................................................................................9 3.3 Site Visits ......................................................................................................... 10 4. Power plant compliance with World Bank/IFC Performance standards................... 11 4.1 PS 1- Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts...................................................................................................................... 11 4.1.1 Policy...................................................................................................... 11 4.1.2 Identification of risks and impacts .......................................................... 11 4.1.3 Management programs .......................................................................... 11 4.1.4 Organizational capacity and competency................................................ 12 4.1.5 Emergency preparedness and response.................................................. 12 4.1.6 Monitoring and review ........................................................................... 12 4.1.7 Stakeholder engagement........................................................................ 13 4.2 PS 2- Labor and Working Conditions ................................................................ 13 4.2.1 Working Conditions and Management of Worker Relationship............... 13 4.2.2 Occupational health and safety management......................................... 13 4.2.3 Grievance mechanism............................................................................. 14 4.2.4 Communication and training................................................................... 14 4.3 PS 3- Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention.......................................... 14 4.3.1 Waste disposal........................................................................................ 14 4.3.2 Air emissions .......................................................................................... 15 Environmental and Social Due Diligence for New Capital Power Plant ii 4.3.3 Noise emissions ...................................................................................... 16 4.3.4 Water supply .......................................................................................... 16 4.3.5 Wastewater discharge ............................................................................ 16 4.3.6 Hazardous waste management............................................................... 17 4.3.7 Energy conservation ............................................................................... 17 4.3.8 Water conservation ................................................................................ 17 4.3.9 Contaminated land ................................................................................. 17 4.4 PS 4- Community Health and Safety ....................................................................18 4.4.1 Spill control and management ................................................................ 18 4.4.2 Structural safety of project infrastructure............................................... 18 4.4.3 Traffic safety........................................................................................... 18 4.5 PS 5- Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement ........................................19 4.5.1 Land acquisition...................................................................................... 19 4.6 PS 6- Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources .................................................................................................................. 19 4.7 PS 7- Indigenous People.......................................................................................19 4.8 PS 8- Cultural Heritage .........................................................................................20 4.9 WBG EHS Sector Guidelines for Thermal Power Plants..................................... 20 4.9.1 Mitigation of air emissions...................................................................... 20 4.9.2 Energy efficiency and GHG emissions ..................................................... 20 4.9.3 Thermal discharges................................................................................. 21 4.9.4 Solid wastes............................................................................................ 21 4.9.5 Hazardous materials and oils .................................................................. 21 4.9.6 Noise ...................................................................................................... 21 4.9.7 Occupational health and safety............................................................... 22 4.9.8 Monitoring emissions ............................................................................. 22 4.10 WBG EHS General Guidelines........................................................................... 22 4.10.1 Environmental ........................................................................................ 22 4.10.2 Occupational health and safety............................................................... 23 4.10.3 Community health and safety................................................................. 23 4.10.4 Construction and decommissioning ........................................................ 23 4.11 Summary of the Environmental and Social Findings ......................................... 24 Environmental and Social Due Diligence for New Capital Power Plant iii 5. Power plant compliance with national regulations ................................................. 25 6. Conclusions and recommendations ........................................................................ 29 Annex (1) Approvals for NCPP........................................................................................ 30 Annex (2) Soil and Groundwater Analysis ...................................................................... 41 Annex (3) Environmental Practice Documents............................................................... 42 Annex (4) Land Allocation Letter and handover meeting Minutes..................................60 Annex (5) Meetings and Site Visit MOM ........................................................................ 67 Environmental and Social Due Diligence for New Capital Power Plant iv List of Figures Figure 1 The location of New Capital Power Plant............................................................ 4 Figure 2 Cairo New Capital power plant layout and boundaries....................................... 5 Environmental and Social Due Diligence for New Capital Power Plant v List of Tables Table 1 Summary of the reviewed documents................................................................. 2 Table 2 Coordinates of the power plant’s land................................................................. 5 Table 3 Comparison of air emissions between turbine design and WB limits ................. 20 Table 4 Summary of the Environmental and Social findings ........................................... 24 Table 5 EEAA approval compliance status.....................................................................