Nador West Med Port Complex Construction Project
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PROJECT : NADOR WEST MED PORT COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COUNTRY : MOROCCO SUMMARY ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA) Team Leader P. S. MORE NDONG, Principal Transport OITC.2/MAFO 7331 Engineer J. P. MEGNE EKOGA, Senior Transport OITC.1/CDFO 6368 Economist J.J. NYIRUBUTAMA, Chief Transport OITC.2 4244 Economist M. KINANE, Principal Environmentalist ONEC-3 2933 Specialist A. MOHAMED MOUSSA, Senior ONEC.2 2867 Financial Analyst Team Members M. YARO, Regional Financial Management ORPF.2/ORNA 2790 Coordinator Project Team V. CASTEL, Chief Country Economist MAFO 7305 MAFO/ORPF. 7320 M. EL ARKOUBI, Procurement Officer 1 S. BAIOD, Consultant Environmentalist ONEC.3 P. H. SANON, Consultant Socio- ONEC.3 5828 Economist Sector Division Mr. Abayomi BABALOLA OITC.2 2525 Manager Sector Director Mr. Amadou OUMAROU OITC 3075 Regional Director Mr. Jacob KOLSTER ORNA 2065 1 SUMMARY ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA) Project Name : Nador West Med Port Complex Country : MOROCCO Project Number : P-MA-DD0-004 Department : OITC Division: OITC.2 1 Introduction This document is the Summary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Nador West Med Port Platform Project in the Kingdom of Morocco. The project ESIA was prepared in July 2014. This summary was prepared in accordance with the country’s environmental requirements and the African Development Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System for Category 1 projects. The summary first presents the project description and rationale, followed by the legal and institutional framework in Morocco. It also contains a description of the project’s main environmental conditions, as well as a comparison of the technical, economic, environmental and social options. The environmental and social impacts have been summarized and the inevitable impacts identified during the port infrastructure preparation, construction and operation phases. Enhancement and mitigation measures to increase benefits and/or prevent or minimize the negative impacts, as well as the monitoring programme have also been proposed. Public consultations held during the ESIA and additional project-related initiatives have been presented. The conclusion indicates the project acceptability for which an Environmental Compliance Certificate has been issued, and the Environmental Surveillance and Monitoring Programme has been posted on NWM company’s and the Moroccan Secretariat of State for the Environment websites. 2 Project Description and Rationale This project is in line with the Kingdom of Morocco’s national overall transport sector development strategy. Its implementation is expected, in the maritime and port sector, to result in the construction of the Nador West Med industrial and port platform. It is part of the activities of the comprehensive programme for the development of Oriental Region which, today, has the lowest socio-economic development indicators in Morocco. Consequently, the project implementation seeks to: (i) contribute to the fight against regional disparities, especially by accelerating and strengthening the economic and social development of the region through improvement of its attractiveness as well as wealth and job creation; and (ii) increase Morocco’s port services in the western Mediterranean region and use its geostrategic position in the Strait of Gibraltar to attract part of the global maritime activity. The Nador West Med port platform, located on the Mediterranean coast in the north-east of the Kingdom, should eventually comprise port facilities supported by a commercial, industrial, logistic and tertiary centre covering a surface area of about 1 500 ha in the free zone. The platform’s port facilities have been designed in several functional modules. The construction of the first module is the subject of this project. It is estimated to cost nearly MAD 10 140 000 000 and has the following components: 2 A. Construction of port infrastructure: A.1 engineering works for the construction of: (i) a 4 200m-long main breakwater; (ii) a 1 200 m-long secondary breakwater; (ii) a 515m x 840m swinging ellipse at -20mZH; (iii) a 170 ha protected sailing area; (iv) a container terminal with a 1 520 m quay, a depth of 18 m and 75 ha of back-up space, with an option to add a 1 200 m quay; (v) a coal terminal with a 360 m quay and a depth of 16.5 m; (vi) a hydrocarbons terminal with three 20m-deep oil berths; (vii) a 320 m general cargo terminal (a roll-on/roll-off berth and a service quay) with a depth of 16 m; and (viii) fencing, road networks and access road. Construction works will include: (i) earthworks, dredging and rock breaking; (ii) backfilling of back-up spaces up to 1.5m below the final proposed grade; (iii) development of the access road that will run along the rear limit of the port back-up space. A.2 works control and supervision, and monitoring of the implementation of environmental protection measures. B. Land acquisition: Most of the area for the platform construction is found on State land. It will therefore be necessary to acquire some land through expropriation. C. Project management and coordination services; D. Auditing of project accounts. 3. Policy, Legal and Administrative Framework Morocco has a national and international legal framework, in particular conventions, agreements and treaties, development policies, programmes, plans and strategies, and national environmental and social protection laws and regulations. 3.1 Policy Framework Law No. 99-12 on the National Environment and Sustainable Development Charter; The Council Charter (2002-2009) which devolves the responsibility of ensuring hygiene preservation, cleanliness and environmental protection on municipal councils; International conventions ratified by Morocco. 3.2 Legislative and Regulatory Framework The Moroccan national regulatory framework is mainly made up of: Law No. 11-03 relating to environmental protection and development ; Law No. 12-03 on impact assessment and its implementing decrees ; Dahir of 25 July 1969 defines natural resource exploitation authorization/prohibition rules; Law No. 65-99 on the Labour Code promulgated by Dahir No. 1-03-194 of 11 September 2003; Law No. 81-12 relating to the coastline seeks to: (i) preserve biological and ecological balance, natural sites and landscapes, and control erosion; (ii) prevent, control and reduce the pollution and degradation of the coastline and ensure the rehabilitation of polluted or 3 deteriorated zones and sites; (iii) ensure integrated and sustainable management of the coastline. Dahir No. 1-13-22 of 13 March 2013 promulgating Law No. 12-12 to approve the 2004 London International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments; Law No. 07-81 relating to expropriation for public purpose and temporary occupancy, and its implementing Decree No. 2-82-382. Decree No. 2-09-684 of 17 March 2010 on the creation of Bétoya free export zone. Other instruments regulate the environmental framework, namely: (i) Law No. 22-80 on the conservation of historic monuments and sites; (ii) Law No. 8-2001 on quarries; (iii) Law No. 13- 03 relating to air pollution control, and its implementing decree; (iv) Law No. 10-95 on water resources, and its implementing instruments; (v) Decree No. 2-04-553 relating to direct or indirect spills, flows, discharges and deposits into surface or ground waters; (vi) Decree No. 2-97-487 laying down the procedure for granting authorizations and concessions relating to public waterways; (vii) Decree No. 2-97-657 relating to the demarcation of protection areas and safeguard and prohibition perimeters; (viii) Dahir of 1914 relating to public property; (ix) Decree No. 2-97-787 on water quality standards and identification of water pollution levels; (x) Law No. 78-00 on the Municipal Charter; (xi) Law No. 65-99 on the Labour Code; (xii) Law No. 12-90 on the Town Planning Code. The ultimate goals are to ensure that environmental and social problems are considered in decision-making through the establishment of a consultation and information dissemination mechanism, and to facilitate the participation of beneficiaries in the decision-making process. This regulatory framework is consistent with the Bank’s environmental approach, defined within an integrated safeguard system and its operational safeguards 1 to 5 and with the African Development Bank Group’s environmental policy. 3.3 Institutional and Administrative Framework Environmental management and protection fall under the Department of the Environment, the main coordinating institution, which is part of the Secretariat of State for Water Resources and the Environment (SEEE) attached to the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water Resources and the Environment (MEMEE). The other central services concerned with environmental aspects mainly belong to the following ministerial institutions: High Commission for Water Resources and Forestry and Desertification Control, which is mainly responsible for the management of forests and conservation of national parks, as well as the regulation of hunting and fishing and desertification control; Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Fisheries, which operates in the area of environment and water resources through Regional Offices for Agricultural Development; Ministry of Interior, Department of Local Authorities, which exercises oversight authority over local communities and supervises equipment programme planning; Ministry of Equipment, Transport and Logistics, particularly the Department of Ports and Public