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Mitigation What are we asking it to accomplish?

Mitigation What are we asking it to accomplish?. Prevent adverse impacts Maximize benefits Not create fundamental instability in communities Establish a strong platform for good managment. Mitigation How can you implement it?. Formal requirement in the record of decision

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Mitigation What are we asking it to accomplish?

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  1. MitigationWhat are we asking it to accomplish? • Prevent adverse impacts • Maximize benefits • Not create fundamental instability in communities • Establish a strong platform for good managment

  2. MitigationHow can you implement it? • Formal requirement in the record of decision • New state regulation • New municipality regulation: eg. zoning requirement • Voluntary action by health department • Specific voluntary mitigation with industry • Broader impact/benefit agreement with industry

  3. Case Examples:1. Sublette County, Wyoming From 1995 to 2007, Sublette Co. Wyoming changed from a rural agricultural county to the larges gas-producing county in Wyoming.

  4. Case Examples:1. Sublette County, Wyoming • Impacts? • Doubling of vehicle-related accidents • Road maintenance problems • Massive inflation in housing prices, labor costs (driving local businesses to collapse), durable goods and food prices • Local schools burdened with large increase in students • 168% increase in EMS runs • Methamphetamine use common among workers

  5. Case Examples:1. Sublette County, Wyoming • Social Impacts: • Study by U. Wyoming showed that • most social impacts relate to influx of temporary workers (decreased social cohesion) • Although a low-income county at baseline, most residents identified lifestyle, safety, and low population as reasons for living there; employment/business was low on the list • Planning-related functions (meetings, documents, legislation) now consume inordinate % of peoples/ time.

  6. Case Examples:1. Sublette County, Wyoming • Crime: (2000 – 2006) • 100% increase in violent crimes • 56% increase in property crimes • 233% increase in juvenile offenses • 312% increase in citations for DUI • 6,550% increase in fish & game citations

  7. Case Examples:1. Sublette County, Wyoming

  8. Case Examples:2. SEMP:Socio-economic Monitoring and Mitigation Program Santa Barbara Tri-county mitigation program responding to OCS development. As a permit condition for OCS activities, 3 counties imposed the SEMP. There was initial disagreement: • Industry: “development is positive; costs are offset by standard mechanisms – permit fees, property taxes, individual taxes on employees” • Counties: “OCS is different because local government can’t control decisions on federal waters; there are no taxes on offshore facilities, even if they lead to costs, such as onshore pollution; scale of industrial activity was completely out of character of traditional uses of area.

  9. Case Examples:2. SEMP • Monitoring: • Estimate Tri-County employment and population impacts of OCS development • Estimate public facilities/services impacts (current and future) • Provide socioeconomic data necessary to develop cost-effective mitigation

  10. Case Examples:2. SEMP • Mitigation Goals: • Offset costs to local governments • Attenuate Boom/bust cycle: developers pay for construction/maintenance of any facilities/expansion required • Mitigation: • Linked to monitoring, program resulted in $10 million in payments to compensate for costs to: • School districts • Community services (water, sewer, roads) • Affordable housing • Public services

  11. Case Examples:3. Camisea • Development of large gas field in Peruvian Rainforest • Home to isolated, seldom-contacted tribes • Initial exploration by Shell in mid-1980s: • Epidemics of influenza and pertussis, killing roughly ½ of the population • Social problems • Outbreaks of STDs • Deep and severe inter-tribal conflicts • Project eventually terminated, until a second effort by Shell in 1995

  12. Case Examples:3. Camisea • What was different in 1995? • “development island” concept: • No Roads (prevented illegal hunting/logging) • Interaction with community only through “health passport” • Social Capital/Sustainable Development, rather than “compensation”: • Strengthen local institutions, “Mothers Clubs” (women administer local projects on behalf of their communities • Building community infrastructure • Health Baseline Assessment

  13. Case Examples:4. Nanisivik Mine • Benefits: • Economic opportunity • Employment • Funds for subsistence • Adverse Impacts • Alcohol problems: increased assess, more money for alcohol • Family breakdown: long periods of work away from home • No evidence for a significant sustainable economic benefit • CONCLUSION: the mine could have had a greater positive effect if there had been a consistent focus on local business development and capacity-building.

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