Pohjoiset suurhankkeet ja ympäristövaikutusten arviointi -symposium Environmental impact assessment of large-scale industrial projects in Northern areas Programme 26-27 November, 2013 Environmental Sciences Building, Lecture Halls IT112, IT116 Paavo Havaksentie 3, Oulu
Welcome to the Symposium and the Centre of Environmental Research Environmental Sciences Building Timo P. Karjalainen Large-scale industrial projects are changing rapidly Northern landscapes and communities in Scandinavia and Arctic regions. Increasing global demand for minerals and metals are creating opportunities and fostering the economy and employment. However, mining and large energy projects, such as wind power parks, inevitably have environmental and social impacts. How can they be managed and maintained at an acceptable level? This symposium focuses on environmental, risk and social impact assessment of large-scale industrial projects, such as mines, wind power parks and nuclear facilities. We are looking for new ideas and critical reflections to the questions like: What are the new approaches and tools for improving the transparency and effectiveness of impact assessment in environmental decision making? What are the new methods and tools for the effective water processing of mining industry? The aim of this symposium is to bring together practitioners working at the cutting edge with both policy makers responsible for shaping impact assessment frameworks and scientists committed to finding practical ways forward. The field of environmental and natural resource management is more and more complex including multiple objectives and stakeholders, overlapping jurisdictions, short and long term effects, cumulative effects and high levels of uncertainty. At the same time when there are high stakes, we have limited resources a need to do more with less, often on short timelines and growing expectations for quality, consistency and transparency in decision making. We need more collaboration between science, governmental, industrial and non-governmental sectors in order to make environmental impact assessments (EIA) more effective in decision making. This need for transdisciplinarity and new collaboration was the main reason to gather the governmental research institutions and interdisciplinary research of Thule Institute together and to form a new research community of the Environmental Sciences Building at the University of Oulu. Welcome to the Symposium and to get familiar with the research done here. On the behalf of the organizing projects and Thule Institute, University of Oulu.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Frank Vanclay Prof Frank Vanclay is Professor of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His interests are in social impact assessment, and the social aspects of environmental management and agriculture. Frank is a former President of the International Rural Sociology Association and a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Impact Assessment. He facilitated the process that led to the International Principles for Social Impact Assessment and has written numerous publications, for example, on corporate social responsibility and SIA, including co-editing The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment (Edward Elgar, 2003) and The New Directions in Social Impact Assessment (Edward Elgar, 2011) Ismo Karhu Mr. Ismo Karhu, Project Manager, has worked as an Acting manager, Environmental Planning at the Council of Oulu Region since the year 2001. His main responsibilities are environmental issues in regional level land-use planning in North Ostrobothnia. Earlier in his career Mr. Karhu has worked as senior environmental specialist and superintendent at the Finnish Transport Agency in Oulu Region.
Programme November 26 th 8:00 Registration + Coffee (LOBBY) 9:00 Opening words (Kari Laine, Director, Thule Institute) 9:10 Session 1a. CEEPRA Project Main Results (Dina Solatie, STUK) (IT116) 10:00 1. keynote: Corporate social responsibility and impact assessment (Frank Vanclay, University of Groningen) (IT116) 10:45 Press (IT134) + Lunch break 12:30 Session 1b. CEEPRA continues (IT116) Session 2. Social impacts and corporate responsibily Accident scenarios and forecasted dispersion of in mining sector (IT112) radioactivity for the Pyhäjoki NPP (Jussi Paatero, FMI) Workshop tutored by Recommendations in the case of the fallout scenario prof. Frank Vanclay (University of Groningen) and (Ari-Pekka Leppänen, STUK) leading consult Kalle Reinikainen (Pöyry Finland Oy) Social impacts of the fallout scenario (Markku Nissi, Pöyry Finland Oy) Future challenges in the Arctic (Justin Gwynn, NRPA) Current levels of radioactivity in Arctic Seas (Gennady Matishov and Nadezhda Kasatkina, MMBI) 15:00 Coffee (LOBBY) 15:30 Summary of the Day (Timo P. Karjalainen) (LOBBY) 16:00 Student poster session in English/Finnish (LOBBY) 18:00 Dinner banquet in the Lobby of the Environmental Sciences Building
OHJELMA Marraskuu 27. päivä 8:00 Ilmoittautuminen ja aamukahvi (Aula) 9:00 2. keynote: Monitavoitearviointi turvetuotannon vesiensuojelussa maakunnallinen näkökulma suunnittelutyökaluihin (Ismo Karhu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaan liitto) (IT116) 9:30 Sessio 3. IMPERIA projektisessio (IT116) Sessio 4. CEE yrityssessio kaivosvedet (IT112) IMPERIA-hanke monitavoitearvioinnin käytännöt CEE, Ympäristö- ja Energia-alan innovaatiokeskittymä YVAn tueksi (projektipäällikkö Mika Marttunen, SYKE) (Pekka Tervonen, CEE) YVAn parhaat käytännöt mistä hyvät YVAt on tehty? Kaivosvesiin liittyvät tutkimusfokukset (Sanna Huhtonen ja Sakari Grönlund, Sito Oy) (Jaakko Rämö, Thule-instituutti & Nordic Mining School) 10:30 Tauko 10:45 Sessio 3. IMPERIA jatkuu (IT116) Sessio 4. CEE kaivosvedet jatkuu (IT112) Vaikutusten merkittävyyden arviointi YVAssa esimerkkinä Kaivosalan vedenpuhdistusratkaisut kaivoshanke (Joonas Hokkanen, Ramboll Finland Oy) (Lasse Moilanen, Chemec Oy) Sidosryhmien osallistumisen tuki YVAssa Veden laadun hallinta ja optimointi mitä monitavoitearviointi voi antaa? (Jaakko Pellinen, OWA Oy) (Jenni Neste, Thule-instituutti & Pöyry Oy ja Modifioitujen luonnonmineraalien hyödyntäminen Timo P. Karjalainen, Thule-instituutti) rakentamisessa ja vesien puhdistamisessa Monitavoitearvioinnin räätälöidyt YVA-työkalut (Tuomo Pikkarainen, Aquaminerals Oy) (Jyri Mustajoki, SYKE) Jatkuvatoimiset ympäristömittaukset Kommenttipuheenvuoro Mattias Järvinen (FCG Oy): (Lasse Kaiponen, EHP-Tekniikka Oy) Työkalujen tarve konsultin näkökulmasta Ympäristölaajennetun panos-tuotosmallin (ENVIMAT) käyttö suurhankkeiden kerrannaisvaikutusten arvioinnissa. (Ilmo Mäenpää, Thule-instituutti) 13:00 Symposium päättyy
ORGANIZERS CEEPRA (Collaboration Network on EuroArctic Environmental Radiation Protection and Research) is an EU-funded project acting under the Kolarctic ENPI CBC programme. The CEEPRA project s main aim is to develop a collaboration network between key radiation research institutions in the EuroArctic region, which will lead to improved emergency preparedness capabilities in the event of any nuclear accidents. The project began in March, 2011 and will last until March, 2014. IMPERIA (Improving environmental assessment by adopting good practices and tools of multi-criteria decision analysis) aims to identify and develop good practices as well as methods to be used in the different stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA), IMPERIA focuses on the use and applications of tools and practices developed in the field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). The ultimate aim is to improve the quality and effectiveness of EIA and SEA. The project is partially financed by EU Life + and will last until the end of 2015. VERKA (The Construction of Research and Company Cooperation for Energy and Environment Sector) is about three years (2010-2014) project, which develops environmental R&D collaboration between Universities, Research Institutes, Cleantech Cluster, Companies and Universities of Applied Sciences especially in the field of measurement technique. The project is financed by the European Social Fund, the North Ostrobothnia ELY Centre, and the University of Oulu. CEE (Centre for Energy and Environment) brings together environment and energy businesses; researchers, developers and investors. CEE is a knowledge hub creating efficient connections between business expertise, top research; and investors and the R&D&I projects. CEE is one of the five innovations centers of The Oulu Innovation Alliance, OIA, which is a strategic agreement between the City of Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, VTT and Technopolis Ltd. http://www.oulu.fi/yliopisto/cee THULE INSTITUTE is a research centre of the University of Oulu which focuses on multidisciplinary research on environmental and northern issues and natural resources. http://www.oulu.fi/thule
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