One of the essential regulatory requirements to build a petrol station in Tanzania is to carry out an environmental impact assessment(EIA) on your proposed petrol station site. Through EIA, you can obtain an EIA Certificate, which is mandatory by law for any project or investment.
Like any other environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) for the development project, a petrol station follows a similar path and process outlined under the EIA & Audit regulation of 2005.
The process starts with the submission of a project brief for project registration ( done by a consultant), followed by screening ( done by NEMC), followed by scoping ( done by the consultant). And then an actual ESIA field study ( done by the consultant).
And in each stage, there is a stakeholder consultations process and field study followed by report preparation and submissions.
There is usually a legal time lapse between each stage, awaiting the National environment management Council( NEMC) review and approval until the completion of the final ESIA report. Which is forwarded by NEMC to the minister of environment vice president’s office for the decision to issue the EIA certificate.
The estimation from the start to end stage of final submission to NEMC is about three to four months (legal timeframe), and after that, another two months of receiving a certificate from the minister.
In these overviews, it is usually advisable that clients begin with the EIA process before any other procedure in their development plan. This is because the EIA certificate is a prerequisite upon which all other permits are issued.
The cost of EIA by consultants for any particular project varies depending on several factors, such as;
– the nature of the project (type of project)
– scale and magnitude of a project
– The sensitivity of the project impacts the human and environment
– distance to the project location
– the level of consultations and stakeholder engagement required
– level of experience of the consultant.”
I hope these narrations will guide you accordingly in developing your oil and gas or energy project
