Resettlement action plan

The development objective of the Tuz Golu Underground Natural Gas Storage Project which is located in Sultanhani locality of Aksaray province, at about 40 km south of Tuz Golu, aims to answer the increased energy demand by storing and using natural gas underground. Some of the negative impacts include: (i) loss of land for agricultural cultivation; (ii) loss of grazing and pasture land; (iii) reduced livelihoods or productivity loses; (iv) 64 landowners were affected by the well area and surface facilities; (v) land expropriation and compensation; (vi) damage to infrastructure; (vii) reinstatement; and (viii) impacts on livelihoods. Some of the mitigation measures include: (i) adequacy of the compensations provided to landowners; (ii) land expropriation and compensation (private, pasture lands, crops and assets etc.); (iii) overall satisfaction from the reinstatement of land and (iv) local settlements and people.