What types of development are subject to EIA?
Traditionally, EIA has been applied mainly to individual projects – for example, a proposal to build and operate a waste water treatment plant, or a chemical production plant. An EIA should deal with both construction and operation of the development, and, ideally, decommissioning also. Most EIA systems provide lists of types of projects (sometimes with size or production thresholds) which should require EIA, or a screening study. More recently, EIA has been applied to other types of development actions, notably Policies, Plans and Programs (PPPs), such as development plans for a country or region, a policy to favour a particular type of energy source, or a series of similar developments. In such a case (known as Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), the process described above differs somewhat, as do the tools available to practitioners. Questions Top of the page Ask Another Question 12. Is EIA practised in Trinidad and Tobago? Yes. EIA has been required by the Town & Country Plan
