German impacts, page-415

Announcement of the State Office for Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate

https://www.lgb-rlp.de/aktuelles/detail/news/detail/News/bekanntgabe-des-landesamtes-fuer-geologie-und-bergbau-rheinland-pfalz.html

Quotes: "Announcement of the State Office for Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate about the result of the general preliminary examination according to § 7 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG)".

"The company Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH is planning to drill six comparable deep boreholes TAN1 - TAN6 for exploration in the mining permit field "Taro" at the project site "Taro Nord", location "Landwehrgraben" for the exploration of the non-mining mineral resources geothermal energy and lithium."

"By letter dated 24.05.2022, the company Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH applied for the determination of the EIA obligation for each of the planned deep wells. The assessment is required pursuant to. § 1 sentence 1 No. 10b UVP-V Mining for each individual deep well as a site-specific examination. Due to the special circumstance that six deep boreholes are planned at this site, a "General Preliminary Examination" was carried out in accordance with § 5 para. 1 sentence 2 no. 1 UVPG in conjunction with. § 1 sentence 1 No. 10a UVP-V Bergbau was applied for and carried out for each individual deep borehole. The results of the individual environmental impact assessments are listed below."

Deep boreholes TAN1 - TAN6....
"There is no obligation to conduct an environmental impact assessment for the deep well."

"Pursuant to Section 5 (3) UVPG, these findings are not independently appealable."

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