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HIA of oil and gas projects: cumulative impacts

HIA of oil and gas projects: cumulative impacts. Martin Birley Salim Vohra Balsam Ahmad. Content. Objections Role of IA Water scarcity and waterborne diseases Climate change and general morbidity. Objections to advertised paper. Too specific Excess secrecy Too general.

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HIA of oil and gas projects: cumulative impacts

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  1. HIA of oil and gas projects:cumulative impacts Martin Birley Salim Vohra Balsam Ahmad

  2. Content • Objections • Role of IA • Water scarcity and waterborne diseases • Climate change and general morbidity

  3. Objections to advertised paper • Too specific • Excess secrecy • Too general

  4. Role of impact assessment? • Complicity with client • Complacency about impacts • Challenge to client groupthink

  5. Cumulative impacts and policy

  6. Water scarcity Oil fields river villages irrigation

  7. Reducing domestic water supply • Increasing waterborne diseases • Increasing cost of water • Poverty • Inequality

  8. Climate change • Global cumulative impact • >150,000 annual deaths globally • Within lifetime of new projects • Denial • Urgent Oct 2011 Safe

  9. National climate change impacts vary – Middle East example • Increasing water scarcity • Temperature extremes • Reduced food supply • Sea flooding

  10. Corporate climate change policies • Acknowledge issue? • Propose mitigation? • Monitor and report? • Independent evaluation?

  11. Conclusions • Excessive secrecy • Challenge v complicity • Cumulative impacts poorly managed/ policy vacuum • Water management • Climate change management • Denial, urgency, acknowledgement, delivery

  12. End

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