Proposed Expansion of Ash Disposal Facility at the Kriel PowerStation, Mpumalanga: Scoping Report

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Annexure E.2

Proof of public participation

Proof of public participation will be included in final scoping report.

1 Annexure E.2

This annexure serves to document the public participation process undertaken to date (during the

scoping phase) for the proposed expansion of the Kriel Ash Disposal Facility.

1.1 Scoping phase public participation process

I&APs were informed of the proposed Kriel Ash Disposal Facility EIA process through:

Site notice (see Figure 1) at Thubelihle community centre (see Figure 2), Thubelihle tuckshop (see Figure 3), Shop inside Kriel Power Station (see Figure 4), Kriel Library (see Figure 5) and the Spar in Kriel(see Figure 6);

Advertisements in Die Beeld (see Figure 7 and Figure 9) a regional newspaper on 27 October (Afrikaans) and The Echo (see Figure 8 and Figure 10) a local newspaper on 28 October (English);

Emails (all had emails an no letters were required)were sent out to potential I&APs that were registered on a previous project on the same property that was withdrawn and given an opportunity to register as I&AP for this EIA.

For those with no emails or addresses they were contacted telephonically (see phone records at the end of this annexure, page 10).

Letters and/or emails were sent to:

Authorities with electronic copies of the scoping report (including DEA IEA, Waste management and Biodiversity)

Other potential I&APs e.g. NERSA, Emalahleni Municipality and SANRAL

The landowner (Eskom)

The adjacent landowners

Open house meetings were held on 9 November 2016 at:

Thubelihle Community Hall, Next to clinic, Kriel Drive (see Figure 11, Figure 12 and Figure 13)

14:00 - 17:00 (public open house meeting)

Methodist Church Hall, Kriel 65 Springbok Crescent and corner of Flamingo Avenue (see Figure 14, Figure 15, Figure 16 and Figure 17)

18:00 - 20:00 (presentation and public open house meeting)

A digital version of the scoping report was uploaded onto the Aurecon and Eskom websites for perusal and download (see ):

Aurecon: http://www.aurecongroup.com/en/public-participation.aspx

Eskom: http://www.eskom.co.za/OurCompany/SustainableDevelopment/EnvironmentalImpactAssessments/Pages/Environment_Impact_Assessments.aspx

I&APs were invited to register for the project, notified of the availability of the scoping report (at Kriel

Power Station and Kriel Public Library) and invited to attend a public open house meeting at either the

Methodist Church Hall in Kriel or Thubelihle Community Hall, Next to clinic on Thubelihle on the 9th of

November 2016. I&APs were afforded the opportunity to contact Aurecon via telephone, email, fax or

mail. In order to better facilitate I&APs to communication officers were provided, Dirk Pretorius for

English and Afrikaans and Simamkele Ntsengwane for Xhosa and Zulu.

1.2 Site notice

Figure 1 | Example of site notice in Afrikaans and English

Figure 2 | Site notices at Thubelihle community centre

Figure 3 | Site notices at Thubelihle tuckshop

Figure 4 | Site notices at shop inside Kriel Power Station

Figure 5 | Site notices at Kriel Library Notice board

Figure 6 | Site notices on the door of the Spar in Kriel

1.3 Advertisements

Figure 7 | Advertisement example Afrikaans

Figure 8 | Advertisement example English

Figure 9 | Advertisement in Die Beeld on 27 October 2016 in Afrikaans

Figure 10 | Advertisement in The Echo on 28 October 2016 in English

1.4 Open house meetings

Figure 11 | Entrance to the Thubelihle Community hall

Figure 12 | A PowerPoint presentation was presented by Aurecon to I&APs at Thubelihle

Figure 13 | The location of the Thubelihle Community Hall

Figure 14 | Entrance to the Kriel Methodist Church Figure 15 | A PowerPoint presentation was presented by Aurecon to I&APs at Kriel

Figure 16 | All slides were printed for ease of reference to I&APs

Figure 17 | The location of the Kriel Methodist Church

Figure 18 | Aurecon Public Participation Website

Figure 19 | Eskom Public Participation Website

Figure 20 | Email proof

Figure 21 | Email proof

Figure 22 | Email proof

Figure 23 | Email proof

Figure 24 | Email proof

Figure 25 | Email proof

Figure 26 | Letters proof

Figure 27 | Letters proof

Figure 28 | Letters proof

Figure 29 | Telephone records

Figure 30 | Telephone records

Figure 31 | Telephone records

Figure 32 | Telephone records

Figure 33 | Telephone records