Slide 1: Social Impact Assessment
1 SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 18 October 2023
Slide 2: Presentation Content
2 PRESENTATION CONTENT ➢ Data Sources ➢ Zones of Influence ➢ Baseline Conditions ➢ Marine & Coastal Users ➢ Cross-cutting Issues ➢ Screening Impacts ➢ Key Issues ➢ Normal Operations ➢ Unplanned Events ➢ Impact Significance ➢ Recommendation
Slide 3: Data Sources
3 DATA SOURCES ➢ Primary data sources: ➢ The meetings held with I&APs during the Scoping Phase, including municipal representatives ➢ Government officials, technical specialists, business interests, NGO and civil society ➢ representatives and the public ➢ Discussion held with First Nations/Indigenou
Slide 4: Zones of Influence
4 ZONES OF INFLUENCE ➢ Immediate zone of influence (IZoI) – the local area where onshore Project activities will occur represents the directly affected community ➢ Primary study area - includes the towns and cities where most goods required during development will be fabricated and assembled ➢ Secon
Slide 5: Baseline Conditions – Garden Route District
5 BASELINE CONDITIONS – GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY Social Conditions (2021) Urban communities Approximately 80% Interior communities Approximately 20% (dispersed farming communities and small towns) Ethnic Groups Coloured (52%) African (30%) White (18%) Economic Activity Finance and business
Slide 6: Baseline Conditions – Garden Route District
6 BASELINE CONDITIONS – GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY Social Conditions (2021) Skills Level (formally Skilled - 26.7% employed) Semi-skilled – 30.4% Low-skilled – 18.7% Educational Attainment Learner retention – 69.0% Senior Certificate or Equivalent – 26.6% No schooling or education below Adul
Slide 7: Marine & Coastal Users
7 MARINE & COASTAL USERS ➢ Commercial and small-scale fishing: ➢ Pelagic longline fishery ➢ Hake demersal trawl ➢ Squid jig fishery ➢ Mariculture ➢ Eco-tourism & Recreational Activities: ➢ Destination for domestic and international tourists ➢ Cruise ship destination ➢ Recreational coastal fishing ➢
Slide 8: Cross-cutting Issues
8 CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES ➢ Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage ➢ Landscape and Seascape ➢ Vulnerable Groups ➢ Human Rights ➢ Sustainable Development
Slide 9: Screening of Impacts – Negligible Impact
9 SCREENING OF IMPACTS – NEGLIGIBLE IMPACT Potential Impact Reason Possibility of Project- induced in-migration; Specific nature of the Project (relatively low local job introduction of people creation potential, cyclical nature of ex-pat deployment), dissimilar in age, gender, the specialised natur
Slide 10: Key Issues – Normal Operations
10 KEY ISSUES – NORMAL OPERATIONS ➢ Fishing Activities: ➢ Restriction on commercial, small-scale, recreational or mariculture activities within Block 11B/12B Application Area due to: ➢ establishment of 500 m radius temporary safety zones ➢ establishment of a long-term safety zone around the area whe
Slide 11: Key Issues – Normal Operations Cont.
11 KEY ISSUES – NORMAL OPERATIONS CONT. ➢ Employment Opportunities: ➢ Support to existing or new employment opportunities associated with all phases of the Project due to spend on goods and services that will be procured locally or within the region via direct, indirect or induced effects ➢ Househol
Slide 12: Key Issues – Unplanned Events
12 KEY ISSUES – UNPLANNED EVENTS ➢ Well Blowout or Pipeline Rupture: Project Development Area ➢ Risk of a major spill of hydrocarbons (modelled as gas and condensate) occurring either from a blowout or loss of well control, or rupture of the production pipeline ➢ Vessel Collision or Accident ➢ Incre
Slide 13: Impact Significance – Normal Operations
13 IMPACT SIGNIFICANCE – NORMAL OPERATIONS No. Aspects Impacts on Main Pre-Mitigation Key Project Controls and Mitigation / Enhancement Measures Residual Receptors Significance Significance 1 A restriction on commercial and Commercial and Negligible Once the subsea infrastructure and pipeline is ins
Slide 14: Impact Significance – Normal Operations Cont.
14 IMPACT SIGNIFICANCE – NORMAL OPERATIONS CONT. No. Aspects Impacts on Pre-Mitigation Key Project Controls and Mitigation / Enhancement Measures Residual Main Significance Significance Receptors 8 Economic Community and Low+ There is substantial overlap between the project controls and the initiati
Slide 15: Impact Significance – Unplanned Events
15 IMPACT SIGNIFICANCE – UNPLANNED EVENTS No. Aspects Impacts on Main Pre- Key Mitigation Measures Residual Receptors Mitigation Significance Significance 1.1 Well blowout or a Impacts on household livelihood High The first step and most important priority in applying the Medium pipeline rupture mit
Slide 16: Impact Significance – Unplanned Events
16 IMPACT SIGNIFICANCE – UNPLANNED EVENTS No. Aspects Impacts on Main Pre- Key Mitigation Measures Residual Receptors Mitigation Significance Significance All claims will be submitted to DFFE, who will take the necessary steps to establish that the claim is adequately substantiated and reasonable. T
Slide 17: Impact Significance – Unplanned Events
17 IMPACT SIGNIFICANCE – UNPLANNED EVENTS No. Aspects Impacts on Main Pre- Key Mitigation Measures Residual Receptors Mitigation Significance Significance 1.2 Well blowout or Impacts on community Very low Same as for Point No. 1.1 Very low a pipeline health and safety rupture 2.1 Well blow out Impac
Slide 18: Recommendation
18 RECOMMENDATION The specialist recommendation is based on: ➢ Consideration of the positive impacts on community livelihoods during normal operations and that impacts can be mitigated from medium significance (in the case of impacts on intangible cultural heritage) or low or to very low significanc
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