Joint Project Webinar: EIA on NPP lifetime extension: How to make use of the new rules for your campaigning

2022-04-21

The Joint Project was preparing this webinar to provide support for NGOs and the public to initiate and join an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure for the life-time extension of nuclear power plants (LTE) now that the Espoo Guidance has been decided.

In the webinar, about 20 participants from 13 countries took part.

Programme

• Chair: Patricia Lorenz, FoEE/GLOBAL 2000: Introduction on strategic value of EIA LTE, ongoing EIA Krsko LTE
• Priska Lueger, Environmental legal expert with ÖKOBÜRO and Justice & Environment: Legal Tools for Public Participation in LTE Processes
• Martin Giersch, Federal Ministry for Climate Action: Lifetime Extension of Nuclear Power Plants: Technical Background for the Applicability of the Espoo Convention
• Jan Haverkamp, Senior Expert with Greenpeace und WISE: Two cases how to use EIA procedures in practice – Borssele (Netherlands) and Tricastin (France)
• Gabriele Mraz, Austrian Institute of Ecology: NPP Lifetime Extension: Examples for transboundary Environmental Impact Assessments (Ukrainian NPP and Loviisa 1&2/Finland)
• Discussion

Presentations

• Patricia Lorenz
• Priska Lueger
• Martin Giersch
• Jan Haverkamp
• Gabriele Mraz

Recording and report

• Watch the recording
• Read the report of the event

Additional information

• Ökobüro: LTE of NPP. Toolkit for Public Participation
• Technical arguments and background for use of the ESPOO Guidance
• Invitation