Environmental impact assessment

Project description
and objectives:

• The client AS Estonian Cell is a company established to own, build and operate a modern, state of the art aspen pulpmill at Kunda, Estonia. In production, the plant will use contemporary environment-friendly Bleached Chemi-Thermo-Mechanical Pulp (BCTMP) technology, and plans to reach 140 000 tonnes of aspen pulp as an annual output.

• The project will utilise and provide value to the currently under-utilised abundant aspen resources of Estonia and will create additional employment not only at the plant but also for the supply side in the forestry sector.

• The project will provide strong technology transfer as the plant will be the first new pulpmill to be built in the Baltics for several decades.

There is a project summary document available for this project.

EIA summary:

Executive summary  (0.1Mb), Estonian  (0.1Mb)

Full EIA availability:

Full EIA documentation is available locally at:

Kunda City Government
Koidu 9a, Kunda
Lääne Virumaa
Estonia
Tel: +372 3221 649

And

AS Estonian Cell office
Reopalu village
Väätsa rural municipality
Järva county
Estonia
Tel: +372 3851 062

And

EBRD Resident Office in Tallinn
Roosikrantsi 11
Swiss House
10119 Tallinn
Estonia
Tel: +372 6418 548
Contact: Mrs. Kai Nigul

And

EBRD’s Business Information Centre in London

Enquiries:

Environmental enquiries:

Raidla & Partners Law Office
Mr. Martin Triipan
Roosikrantsi 2
10119 Tallinn
Estonia
Fax: +372 6407 171
e-mail: email@raidla.ee