EFFECTS OF NOROCHCHOLAI COAL

POWER PLANT PROJECT

B E YO N D T O D A Y
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Introduction of the Project :
Name of Project : Norochcholai Coal Power Plant

Project Goals : Construction of a 300 MW Coal

Fired.
Thermal Power Plant, with
Infrastructure for a 900 MW Power Plant.

Project Purpose : To cater for the Increasing demand

of Electricity from the year 2010.

Total Estimate Cost : US$ 455Mn

Implementation Agency :
• Development of Access
Roads to Plant Site - CEB/RDA
• Electricity Supply to
Power Station Site for Construction - CEB
• Housing Construction for
Resettlement - CEB
• Design construction of
the Power Plant & Infrastructure - CEB
• Site Location
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q Narakaliya 2 km from Norochcholai

Town
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q Norochcholai is a Costal Village

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q 15 Km of West of Puttalam Town
• and 120 km from Colombo
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q Residence – Mixed (Roman Catholics

and Muslims)
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q Livelihood - Farming and Fishing
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q Project area 470 meters X 1980 meters
SOCIAL ASPECTS
• Negative impacts to the talawila shrine

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• Dust from the coal stockpile covering large acreage will be
a danger to devotees in open camps and shrine itself

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• Coal stockpile itself will create a large amount of dust

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• Higher temperature chasing the marine life away while
harming the breading. Nearly 5000 families engaged in
this fishing industry will be definitely loose of their
livelihood

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• Security restrictions due to the 4.2 km conveyor belt into
the sea
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• Sulphur composition in the fly ash settling
on the crop and daily watering of the
farmland
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• National salterns at palavi and puttalam
which has a total extent of around 1200
acres will also suffer as a result of coal
dust and fly ash contaminating the salt
production
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• Sprinklers to cover this facility will taken
from the ground water resource will starve
the agricultural crops and even the
drinking water wells will dry up in addition
 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

• Emission of gasses
– Green house gases - CO2 and CO
,SOx and NOx
• Acid rains
– Due to SOx and NOx
• Discharge of warm water to sea
• Ash and coal dust
• Coastal erosion
• Noise
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• Resettlement
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• 80 Families relocated in Daluwa

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• Most of them were mostly illegal settlers

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•Each family got ;
20 perch block, 500 square feet house with 2 bed rooms, one living room,
kitchen, Toilet and Drinking water well, Community hall.
300 perch land for agriculture - farming families)

300 perch land for agriculture - farming families) (Fisherman will get
fishing Gear, Bicycle etc)

The Government has spent Rs.936 million for all the above
activities.
 SOLUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS
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q Sulfur - Use Low Sulfur Coal
• Use Scrubbers
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q Solution for Fly-ash - Use electrostatic precipitators and
subsequently.
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q Bottom ash - It is proposed to deposit these in a dedicated
landfill facility.
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q Coal dust - Spray water.
Planting trees around site perimeter
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q DISCHARGE OF WARM WATER TO SEA
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• - limited to 1000 sq meters (2.5 acres) of the Indian Ocean.

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q COASTAL EROSION DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF COAL
UNLOADING JETTY
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• - constructed on cylindrical piles

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q GREEN HOUSE GASES
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• - Global effects on the proposed plant is negligible

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q PROPOSED MITIGATION MEASURES FOR GAS EMISSIONS

- NOx are controlled by using low NOx burners.

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- Smoke emissions will be released from 150 meter tall
chimneys
 SUMMERY

qIntroduction
qSocial aspects
qEnvironmental impacts
qSolutions
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