This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Man-Made & Industrial Disasters Environmental

This Programme is funded by the European Union

PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership

Man-Made & Industrial Disasters Environmental issues

2.3.2 Co-participating in the Training Tailing Management Facility

Task C2.3 Assistance to Government Environmental Emergency Projects

2.3.1 Project Preparation Assistance (PPA)



Assistance to Government Environmental Emergency Projects

3.1 Project Preparation Assistance (PPA):

Key driver : Country with national Working Group PPRD assists active Working groupRound Table 30-31 August 2011Problem analysis and Joint action planFollow-up meeting Kiev 16-17 November 2011Concrete separate actionsDecember plan + budget for approval by Minister



Country’s National

Expert Team

PPRDKey

expertPrincipal of mechanism:

country does all homework incl.

preparation PPRD adds up with specific

expertise



1st Round Table in Kalush, 30-31 August 2011: site visit and public debate

HCB waste repacked and stored for export



Interesting conclusion about the mechanism:

Most urgent project in region Kalush project was a combination of:

TMF Tailing Management Facilities with high danger of collapse of tailing dams and consequences to drinking water supply of Millions of inhabitants of Moldova and Western Ukraine (Dniestr)

Chemicals dangers:Ukraine eliminated more than 30,000 tons of extremely dangerous HCB





At Steering Committee meeting 2013:• 2 Project Preparation Assistances (PPAs) were

budgeted• Requests could be forwarded till end of April 2013

…………… No requests received

…………... Mechanism was closed!

2.3.2 Co-participating in the Training Tailing Management Facility



The unrecoverable and uneconomic metals, minerals, chemicals, organics and process water are discharged, normally as slurry, to a final storage area commonly known as a Tailings Management Facility (TMF) or Tailings Storage Facility (TSF)

Tailings: ground rock & process effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant



Improving the Safety of Tailing Management Facilities for Ukraine –UBA Germany

Base: UNECE "Safety Guidelines and Good Practices for Tailings Management Facilities (TMF)"

August 2013: Startup with Kick-off meeting in August 2013 in Kiev Discussion action plan for the project

Step 1:November 2013: Investigation of degree of implementation in legislation and administration in Ukraine in relation to implementation of UNECE Guidelines



Step 2: Start end of August 2013Analysis of safety specific technical provisions at

concrete TMF (2 sites), by means of CHECKLIST by Ukrainian Team supported by international experts, to be used for:

• Training of Inspectors and • Operators in Ukraine to improve the safety of TMF

14 November Steering Committee meeting in Kiev with authorities and International experts that have given input to the work of the Ukrainian TMF experts

First discussions Comments/input on the draft checklistsPPRD –East Sergej Anagnosti ---- issues on cooperation PPRD2nd Draft has been and will be used for the 1st Training



PURPOSE OF Checklist:Work out a Catalogue for the necessary

Short-term measures Medium-term measures Long-term measuresin order to initiate the potentially necessary safety measures



Measures• Short-Medium term are simple/easy to implement at

low cost• Long-term measures in order to secure an international

acceptable safety level in the long-term• The checklist is therefore an international Cross

border tool that supports the capacity-building for Authorities and Operators

• UN ECE can easily support process of training and use in whole UNECE region in future



• Step 3: Field training and field test • 13-15 May 2014: Lviv TMF

Explanation of modules for participantsSite testing of checklist on practicability by Ukrainian regional inspectors, owners and inspectors of PPRD-East project and International experts

• Participation by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia based on official requests received

• Last minute call offs from Armenian and Azeri colleagues and some international experts fearing the situation in Ukraine, however all was perfect in Lviv!

TMF Access Road: during rains and in winter times heavy economic losses due to extreme difficult transport conditions (investments needed)

Stability of Tailings

Pipeline ”maintenance problems”

Top: Guidance by TMF operator for the inspectors Right hand: Monitoring well for groundwater

Re-utilization and re-exploitation of first disposal site, which is now again economically feasible

Ukrainian and Georgian PPRD Inspectors surrounded by international experts and organisers and Armenian TMF owner



Step 4: June-August new improvement of checklistStep 5: October-November 2014: 2nd Field training and field test at TMF in Dnepropetrovsk region – What about possibility of PPRD countries participation?PPRD Phase 2 will start …………….2015………….?????

Step 6: Final improvement of checklistStep 7: final setup of Training Toolkit 2014 - 2015

Step 8: International workshop on project results: 2015New opportunity for joint-venture with PPRD-Phase 2

Documents

This Programme is funded by the European Union PPRD East Programme – a Flagship Initiative of Eastern Partnership Man-Made & Industrial Disasters Environmental