Environmental impact assessment

Project description
and objectives:

Energy Resources LLC (ER) is seeking debt financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to develop Phase II of their Ukhaa Khudag (UHG) Project (hereafter, “the Project’). The Project will build on ER’s current Phase I mining operations (EBRD Project Number 39820) to include the expansion of the existing UHG coal mine and related infrastructure (eg. pits, pipelines, internal roads, workshops, ancillaries etc.). Other elements of the Phase II Project may include:

• a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP);
• a ground water abstraction field (including a bore field and water supply pipeline for mining and mine support facilities);
• an airstrip; and
• expansion of worker accommodation facilities (to a total capacity of 1,250 persons).

A possible Phase III mine development, which is not part of the proposed financing, may include the construction of a coal export rail link to the Chinese border (225 kilometers in length, plus a 10km loading loop at the mine).

There is an environmental and social impact assessment for this project that covers Phase II and the possible Phase III.

EIA summary:

Non-technical summary (English)  (1.7Mb)
Non-technical summary (Mongolian)  (1.7Mb)

Full EIA availability:

Full EIA documentation is available locally at:
EBRD's Business Information Centre in London

Energy Resources Headquarters
Central Tower, 15th floor
2 Sukhbaatar Square, SDB-8
Ulaanbaatar 210620a, Mongolia

Tel: (976) 70122279, 70132279
Fax: (976-11) 322279
Web: www.energyresources.mn

Energy Resources Representative Office
Dalanzadgad soum
Soum Governor’s Office Building
2nd floor, Room 27
Khankhongor aimag, Mongolia

Tel: (976)01-532-22499

Energy Resources UHG Branch
Mine camp
Umuumur bagh
Tsogttsetsii soum
Umnugobi aimag, Mongolia

Tel: (976) 77202279

EBRD Resident Office
3rd Floor, MCS Plaza
Seoul Street – 4
Ulaanbaatar 210644
Mongolia

Tel: (976) 11 317 974

Full ESIA documentation is available electronically at:
http://www.energyresources.mn/index.php?l=e&p=88&t=7

Enquiries:

Gotov Battsengel, CEO
Energy Resources LLC
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Tel: (976) 7012 2279
Fax: (976 ) 7012 2280