Keskkonnaamet publishes this announcment under § 21 and § 16(2)1) of Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Management System Act.

Keskkonnaamet announces the publication of  the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report of the VKG Mines application for authorisation to mine OÜ Oandu.

The objective of the proposed action is to start the extraction of oil shale in blocks 1, 5, 8, 11, 12 and 13 of the Oandu exploration field, which cover a total of 160 710 thousand t 5856,89 ha of mining stock. The stock is designated as passive. The application for authorization shall seek to designate a stock as active. Mining permission is requested for 30 years at an average annual rate of 5 million t/y and a maximum rate of 15 million t/a. ODA's exploration field remains in the municipalities of Lüganus and Alutagus in Ida-Viru County and the municipality of Vinni in Lääne-Viru County. The EEA initiated an EIA for the planned operation by letter No 12-2/18/2050-16 of 10.07.2018.

EIA parties:
Developer (s) is (are) Osaühing VKG Kaevandused (registry code: 10854884) (address Järveküla tee 14, Kohtla-Järve linn, 30328 Ida-Viru maakond), contact person Merilin threads, e-mail erika.sulg@vkg.ee, phone 334 2794).
The decision maker is Environmental Agency (contact person: Flowers Tamm, e-mail lilli.tamm@keskkonnaamet.ee, phone, 674 4803.).
KMH's expert is OÜ Hendrikson & Ko, the lead speaker is Riin kutsar, phone 526 9962, e-mail riin@hendrikson.ee. The Monitoring Trustee shall:   Camilla Kastein, phone 5694 0905, e-mail camilla.kastein@keskkonnaamet.ee.

EIA report is available at 20.03-18.04.2021 (inclusive) On the website of the Environment Agency, www.keskkonnaamet.ee (leaflet news, press reports) and at the offices of the Environment Agency, Jõhvi Park 15, Jõhvi.

Proposals, objections and questions of the EIA report can be subbmitted at until 18.04.2021 (inclusive), Viljandi mnt 16, Tallinn or email at info@keskkonnaamet.ee.

The public consultation of the EIA report takes place at 19.04.2021 from 14.00 to 16.00 in the online environment Zoom (public consultation can be joined at https://zoom.us/j/93523579087?pwd=WTdDdGd4bjhOaEY4d3dvSXUyMFlTdz09, meeting ID: 935 2357 9087, passcode: 558006. For pre-registration at the meeting, please send a request to participate no later than 18.04.2021 to the address camilla.kastein@keskkonnaamet.ee.