31.   New Zealand also has requested an emergency ban on tests while the court considers the case, and a French environmental impact assessment.

32.   Rundle said the feasibility study would analyze possible sites, then involve community consultation and environmental impact assessment.

33.   The administration should be brave enough to reject projects which do not have the environmental impact assessments.

34.   The bureau said it has done environmental impact assessments and has never found evidence of harm to either humans or wildlife.

35.   Third World Network director Martin Khor today said such assessments, somewhat similar to environmental impact assessments, would safeguard the interests of the poor.

36.   What could be improved, though, are social impact assessments of administrative decisions.

37.   He said the company was optimistic the project would go through with authorities having approved an environmental impact assessment of the industrial zone.

38.   Anwar had said the government was satisfied with an environmental impact assessment conducted on the project and that there had been no public complaints on the report.

39.   But Anwar said the government was satisfied with an environmental impact assessment conducted on the project and added there had been no public complaints on the report.

40.   But the government is pressing ahead with the venture, saying it was satisfied with an environmental impact assessment conducted on the project.