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Nigeria – Zuma Coal-Fired Power Plant – ESIA Summary - (revised April 2015)

This report is a non-technical summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Zuma Coal-Fired Power Plant (ZCFPP) in Nigeria. It describes the Project design and the potential impacts they may have on the physical and biological environments and on people. It also addresses the measures that the Project will implement to reduce adverse impacts and to enhance potential social benefits, and how environmental and social issues will be managed during construction and operations, taking into account the imperative for compliance with applicable safeguard policies of the Ba…