21. Biodiversity should also be accorded due priority by those conducting environmental impact assessment. 22. But an advisor to the Kanchanaburi Conservation Group, Pibhop Dhongchai, pointed out that the review panel had found flaws in the environmental impact assessment of the project. 23. But he said carbon dioxide output in future would be considered part of the environmental impact assessment of any new project. 24. Clements said Greenpeace is encouraging Caribbean governments to demand that Japan submit to an independent environmental impact assessment before it considers shipping dangerous waste. 25. Despite complaints by environmentalists, the government has avoided holding public hearings on the project and has not released details of its environmental impact assessment. 26. Environmentalists in southern Thailand fear that the project, which has yet to undergo an environmental impact assessment, will hurt local communities, the ecosystem and tourism. 27. For this, the policy calls for biodiversity conservation to be made a factor in planning and impact assessment for sectoral and cross-sectoral development programmes. 28. He said World Bank standards provide for environmental impact assessments for projects that are then made public before export credit agencies come into the picture. 29. In the Czech Republic, two environmental groups said they would sue the government for giving out construction permits wihout environment impact assessments. 30. Mineta said state and federal environmental impact assessments of proposed projects can be done simultaneously, instead of back-to-back. |