2008, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd., (CMACS), Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, Construction Phasern Environmental Monitoring

Description

Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd (CMACS) was appointed by SeaScape Energy Ltd in April 2005 to develop and undertake pre and during construction environmental monitoring to meet the requirements of the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) licence issued to the wind farm developer.The Environmental Monitoring Methods have been developed in consultation with statutory and non-statutory consultees. Monitoring is being undertaken through a series of discrete surveys covering various environmental and ecological components. The purpose of the report in this series is to bring together the various technical reports
which present results of the different strands of the environmental monitoring.
An overview of the results is provided in an Executive Summary (Section 3)
and inter-related elements of the monitoring are considered in Section 4.
Detailed information is provided in the technical reports within Appendix 3.