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Environmental Impact Assessments ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: ABATTOIR APPLICATIONS Abattoir project – Welkom Department of Agriculture Free State Province Abattoir project – Welkom Private Applicant AGRICULTURE RELATED APPLICATIONS Feed and fertilizer manufacturing facilities – Private Applicant Wesselsbron Breeding and conservation farm – Vredefort Johannesburg Zoo South African Technology Demonstration Centre – Joint venture between South Gariep (Fishery) Africa and China Feedlot developments: Bultfontein Theunissen Private Applicants Vredefort Free State Province Zastron Development of chicken farming infrastructure: Bethulie Bloemfontein Brandfort Koffiefontein Private Applicants Smithfield Soutpan Springfontein Wesselsbron Development of chicken farming infrastructure: Balfour Private Applicants Gauteng Province Bronkhorstspruit Chemvet Krugersdorp Nigel Development of chicken farming infrastructure – Northern Cape Province Private Applicant Postmasburg Development of chicken farming infrastructure: Makwassie North West Province Private Applicants Ventersdorp Zeerust BILLBOARD INFRASTRUCTURE KwaZulu-Natal Province Erection of billboard infrastructure – Durban Outdoor Network ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE & GENERATION PROJECTS Construction of a 132kV power line – Bloemfontein Centlec Construction & refurbishment of a 66kV power line Eskom – Springfontein to Reddersburg Free State Province Construction of a 22/11kV power line reticulation from the Hydro Power Station on the Ash River to Bethlehem Hydro Bethlehem Development of a Hydro-Electric Power Scheme – Kruisvallei Hdyro Bethelehem Deviation of a 132kV Eskom sub-transmission line – PPC Lime Lime Acres Northern Cape Province Construction of a substation and 132kV power lines Eskom – Hopetown Construction of a Step-Down Substation – Western Cape Province Eskom Langebaan HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT FACILITIES AND CONTAINMENT INFRASTRUCTURE Establishment of an oxygen tank – Virginia Afrox Installation of an underground diesel tank - Private Applicant Free State Province Phuthaditjhaba Establishment of a hazardous waste treatment Private Applicant facility – Welkom LARGE PREDATOR MANAGEMENT PLANS Large predator management plans: Bethlehem Bloemfontein Boshof Brandfort Clocolan Excelsior Private Applicants Ficksburg Free State Province Lions Rock Hoopstad Johannesburg Zoo Kestell Luckhoff Paul Roux Reddersburg Vrede Vredefort WinburG MINING RELATED PROJECTS EIA for commercial quarries: KwaZulu-Natal Province Scottburgh Afrimat Aggregates Hluhluwe Application for environmental authorisation for the Mpumalanga Province B&E International crushing of aggregate – Balmoral PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESSES Notification of interested and affected parties – Free State Province construction of a power line and distribution centre Centlec – Bloemfontein SANPARKS RELATED PROJECTS Sewerage purification plant – Golden Gate Highlands National Park Upgrading of the Qwa Qwa Cultural Village – Qwa Free State Province SANParks Qwa National Park Development of a vulture hide – Golden Gate Highlands National Park Development of the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse Precinct – Agulhas National Park Western Cape Province SANParks Construction of a boardwalk – Agulhas National Park TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS Environmental management plans for cell phone masts: MTN Rouxville Zastron Construction of cell phone masts: Bethlehem Bloemfontein Free State Province Boshof Brandfort Bultfontein MTN Clarens Edenburg Hertzogville Hobhouse Hoopstad Kroonstad Mangaung Petrusburg Phillipolis Senekal Vanstadensrus Construction of cell phone masts: Carnavon De Aar Hopetown Northern Cape Province Kimberley MTN Pampierstad Postmasburg Schweizer-Reneke Victoria West Installation of an optic fibre infrastructure network Western Cape Province Dark Fibre Africa from Melkbosstrand to Yzerfontein National long haul optic fibre infrastructure network project through the following municipal areas: Johannesburg Metro, GP Merafong City, GP Magareng Local Municipality, NC Sol Plaatjie Local Municipality, NC Umsombomvu Local Municipality, NC Emthanjeni Local Municipality, NC Ubuntu Local Municipality, NC Potchefstroom Local Municipality, NW Neotel Klerksdorp Local Municipality, NW MTN National Maquassie Hills Local Municipality, NW Vodacom Leekwa-Teemane Local Municipality, NW SANRAL Tokologo Local Municipality, FS Letsemeng Local Municipality, FS Mangaung Local Municipality, FS Kopanong Local Municipality, FS Central Karoo Local Municipality, WC Beaufort-West Local Municipality, WC Prince Albert Local Municipality, WC Laingsburg Local Municipality, WC Breede Valley Local Municipality, WC Drakenstein Local Municipality, WC Stellenbosch Local Municipality, WC City of Cape Town Local Municipality, WC TOURISM & LEISURE RESIDENTIAL RELATED PROJECTS Expansion of Amanzi Private Game Reserve - Amanzi Private Game Brandfort Reserve Free State Province Leisure residential developments: Brandfort Private Applicants Harrismith Vredefort Eastern Cape Province Development of a business complex – Port Alfred Private Applicant Establishment of Emaswazini Drakensberg Resort - KwaZulu-Natal Province Private Applicant Bergville Development of chalet and tourism infrastructure – Private Applicant Potchefstroom North West Province Development of offices and residential houses – Department of Water Affairs Boskopdam Western Cape Province Leisure residential development – Oudtshoorn Private Applicant TRANSPORT RELATED PROJECTS Upgrading of the S110 – S1531 public transport routes – Thaba Nchu Department of Transport Free State Province Upgrading of the S317 between Verkeerdevlei and Thaba Nchu Establishment of a railway link – Allenridge Private Applicant KwaZulu-Natal Province Erection of a mobile asphalt plant – Mandini National Asphalt Construction of a bridge across the Vaal River and Northern Cape Province re-alignment of the National Route N18 Section 1 – SANRAL Warrenton WATER RELATED PROJECTS Free State Province Construction of a gauging weir – Bothaville Department of Water Affairs KwaZulu-Natal Province Construction of an irrigation dam – Volksrust Private Applicant Construction of a gauging weirs: Northern Cape Province Blouputs Department of Water Affairs Sendelingsdrift Replacement of the 4 Special Forces Regiment Western Cape Province Salamander Boat Park/Harbour existing breakwater Department of Public Works – Langebaan MINING AUTHORISATIONS: MINING PERMIT / RIGHT APPLICATIONS Mining permit applications: Eastern Cape Province Herschel Raumix Aggregates Queenstown Mining permit applications: Mampudi Crushers Bethlehem Marx Vervoer Free State Province Wepener Private Applicant Mining right application - Theunissen Vengablox Gauteng Province Mining permit application – Pretoria Baitumetse Mining permit application: Raubex KZN Harding Raumix Aggregates KwaZulu-Natal Province Mtubatuba Van Eeden Projects Trust Ladysmith Aeterno Investments 215 Mining permit applications: Bethal Mpumalanga Province Ermelo Raubex Construction Kriel Middelburg Mining permit applications: Duneco Colesberg Northern Cape Province Afrimat Keimoes SPH Kundalila Aggeneys Mining permit application: North West Province Raubex Construction Zeerust Afrimat Aggregates Mining right application – Malmesbury Purple Rain Properties No Western Cape Province 411 Mining permit application – Robertson CP Concrete NEMA 24G APPLICATIONS: NEMA 24G RECTIFICATION PROJECTS Department of Economic, Review and handling of 370 NEMA 24G Development, Tourism and applications Environmental Affairs – Free Free State Province State Province Unlawful construction of a billboard – Bloemfontein Outdoor Network Unlawful construction of tourism infrastructure – Private Applicant Brandfort Unlawful construction of residential infrastructure Private Applicant and predator enclosure – Winburg Unlawful construction of broiler units – Gauteng Province Private Applicant Bronkhorstspruit Unlawful concentration of chicken livestock – North West Province Private Applicant Ventersdorp Western Cape Province Unlawful construction of roads – Stillbaai Private Applicant ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING: ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE MONITORING Environmental auditing of commercial quarries at: Aliwal North Cradock Raumix Aggregates Eastern Cape Province Ngobo Queenstown Environmental officer at the upgrading of the road Raubex KZN from Tombo to the Isimelela Clinic – Port St. Johns Construction and refurbishment of the 66kV Power Eskom Line from Gariep to Reddersburg Construction of a gauging weir – Zastron Department of Water Affairs Free State Province Compliance monitoring at various cell phone masts MTN in Bloemfontein Environmental auditing of Petra Quarry – Raumix Aggregates Bloemfontein Environmental auditing of quarries at Harding National Asphalt Environmental officer for the widening of the N2 project – Eteza Environmental officer for the resurfacing of the Raubex KZN N2 from the EB Cloete interchange to the Mt Edgecombe interchange Environmental officer for the rehabilitation of the roads at the: Mkhuze section of the iSimangaliso Wetland KwaZulu-Natal Province Milling Techniks Park – Mkhuze Eastern & Western Shores of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park – St Lucia Environmental officer for the upgrade of ranger camps within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Kosi MCC Construction Bay, Mbazwana, Sodwana, St Lucia Environmental officer for the upgrade of the Bhangazi Entrance gate to the iSimangaliso Wetland DeJ Construction
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