Environmental Impact Assessment
The environmental impact assessment is carried out by the consortium of Pöyry Energy Oy and Lithuanian Energy Institute. The EIA program was approved on 15 November 2007 and the EIA report was published on 27 August 2008. The whole EIA process was finished on 27 March 2009 and the report was approved by Ministry of Environment on 21 April 2009 by allowing construction of the plant up to 3,400 megawatts. The Environmental Impact Assessment approval was appealed by a coalition of NGOs (Community Atgaja from Lithuania, the Latvian Green Movement, CEE Bankwatch Network and Greenpeace).
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