It is a brownfield site, which means that the habitats generally have lower levels of biodiversity. Read more at straitstimes.com.
will be built on a “largely brownfield site” that was previously occupied by a chemical plant for over 15 years, said the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Monday evening.
The report drew the ire of several nature groups here, which said it lacked rigour and paid inadequate attention to the plant’s impact on land-based biodiversity. According to the EIA report, a total of 65 trees within the project’s area will be felled – 85 per cent of which are acacia trees, and 12 per cent, casuarina trees.
Despite the clarification that the power plant will be built on a “largely brownfield site”, Nature Society spokesman Tony O’Dempsey pointed out that the chemical plant that previously stood there was demolished around 2016 to 2017. The Nature Society is currently engaging in further dialogues with Keppel and the National Parks Board , he added.
According to National Environment Agency guidelines, once the temperature of the sea exceeds 45 deg C, the plant will have to stop work immediately. Mr Nasry said the EIA should also have specified the power plant will be built on the former site of a chemical plant, instead of justifying the lack of wildlife surveys by saying it will be built on “reclaimed land”.
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