Table 12.1 Consultation responses Consultee
Secretary of State
Date /Document December 2012
Scoping Opinion East Anglia THREE and FOUR
Comment
The data and information gained from the chapter on Underwater Noise and vibration and Electromagnetic Fields should be cross referenced to inform the assessment on marine mammals.
The assessment should also consider the displacement and potential barrier effects as a result of noise emitted during the construction period, and the effect on marine mammals as a result of the potential displacement/disturbance of their food sources.
The assessment should consider impacts to marine mammals on a cumulative scale; particularly as the proposed development may be part of further developments within the East Anglia Zone.
The ES should set out in full the potential risk to European Protected Species (EPS) and confirm if any EPS licences will be required for example, for harbour porpoises and grey seals.
The SoS considers that there is potential for the presence of EPS within the study area for the proposed development. Where a potential risk to an EPS is identified and before making a decision to grant development consent the CA must, amongst other things, address the derogation tests in Regulation 53 of the Habitats Regulations. Therefore the Applicant may wish to provide information which will assist the decision maker to meet this duty. Where required the Applicant should, in consultation with Natural England and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), agree appropriate requirements to secure necessary mitigation.
Response / where addressed in the PEI Section 12.6.1
Section 12.6.1
Section 12.7
Section 12.6.1, 12.6.2 and 12.6.3 assesses impacts to harbour porpoise as an EPS.
Harbour seal and grey seal are not EPS.
Section 12.5.3 confirms that harbour porpoise are the only commonly occurring EPS in the area.
EATL has committed to the development of a marine mammal mitigation protocol (MMMP) post consent in consultation with Natural England (section 12.6.1) to mitigate an injury offence to harbour porpoise from pile driving noise. The MMMP will also mitigate injury in other EPS (low frequency and mid-frequency cetaceans).
EATL will complete EPS licence application
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
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