Dear All
Please make sure you try and attend one of the Bantamsklip EIA Meetings, it is vitally important. This is our last chance to show our opposition to this planned Nuclear Station.
I will be going to the
| PROVINCE | AREA | DAY AND DATE | VENUE | TIME |
| | Hermanus | 23 March 2010 | Overstrand Municipal Auditorium | 18H00 – 20H00 |
| Pearly Beach | 24 March 2010 | Pearly Beach Club | 18H00 – 20H00 | |
| Bredasdorp | 25 March 2010 | Overberg Agri Hall | 18H00 – 20H00 |
See below a very good overview from Rob Fryer and the OCF.
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Amanda
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-----Original Message-----
From: Overstrand Conservation Foundation [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:39 AM
To:
Subject: OCF NEWSFLASH NO 3 - BANTAMSKLIP NUCLEAR POWER STATION
No 3 – 23 March 2010
Bantamsklip – Information Gleaned from the Eskom Spokesman
on the Nuclear Programme
The true status of Bantamsklip as a potential site for a nuclear power station became clear on Wednesday 17th March during a telephone interview the OCF conducted with Mr Tony Stott. The interview was held during the weekly OCF Conservation Matters programme on Whale Coast FM (96FM). Stott is the Eskom spokesman for the nuclear programme.
During the interview the following was learned:
1. No “fatal flaw” has been revealed by the specialist studies conducted during the EIA for Bantamsklip as a site for a future nuclear power station. While it is now not the preferred site for the first nuclear power station to be built, if the EIR is approved as it stands, it will stay on the list and may be the site for the next nuclear installation.
2. The reason that Bantamsklip is not the preferred site is not only the cost of the transmission lines as reported in the media; the additional cost is only of the order of 5% of the overall cost of Nuclear 1. While the cost of the transmission lines to Bantamsklip will be more than for the other two sites (Thyspunt and Duinefontein), the fact that the EIA’s for the Bantamsklip transmission lines are lagging badly behind schedule is an important factor in ranking Bantamsklip lower than the other two sites for Nuclear 1. There are also difficulties associated with transporting large equipment to Bantamsklip.
The deadline by which Nuclear 1 must be commissioned means that construction needs to start in 2011 and this is not possible given the delays in the Bantamsklip transmission line EIAs. Major road reconstruction to and/or building of barge handling facilities at Bantamsklip will be required to enable bringing large equipment to site. These transportation facilities will themselves require further EIAs and there is just not enough time for these to be done in time to meet the construction deadlines for Nuclear 1.
3. Eskom intends that 5 nuclear power plants will be built and that Bantamsklip will be one of the sites that will be used for a future project unless environmental authorisation is refused for the site and/or the associated transmission lines.
4. If authorisation is not given for the preferred Thyspunt site, it remains possible that consideration could again be given to using the Bantamsklip site for Nuclear 1. The site finally chosen will depend upon the terms and conditions in the record of decision in the authorisation of the EIRs for the 3 sites currently under consideration.
5. No final decision has been taken on whether the 2 EIA’s for the transmission lines associated with Bantamsklip will be continued with now or whether they will be held in abeyance until later. The feasibility of transmission line corridors proposed by Eskom has not been confirmed by the EAP, Arcus Gibb. Stott admitted that the mountainous terrain makes it difficult to find a route that is feasible from an engineering and environmental perspective.
6. Stott believes that there are many people in the Overstrand, including senior people in the
It remains very important that I&APs remain involved in the EIA process to its conclusion. Proper review of all the specialist reports is most important to ensure that all concerns are identified and fully addressed. Those I&APs who have expertise that allows them to critically review the specialist reports are requested to study the reports and to submit comments within the allowed response time (10 May).
All I&APs are encouraged to attend the public meetings that will be held this week to discuss the draft EIR (the first of these is at 17:00 on Tuesday, 23 March, in the Hermanus Municipal Auditorium).
Kind regards
Rob Fryer
Manager, Overstrand Conservation Foundation
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