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OES-Environmental
The guidance documents are intended to be available for regulators and advisors as they carry out their decision-making and for developers and consultants as they prepare consenting and licensing applications. This stressor-specific document presents an overview of the scientific information that is known for entanglement. It is not…
- Journal Article:
Kaplan Dau et al.
We reviewed medical records from select wildlife rehabilitation facilities in California to determine the prevalence of injury in California Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), gulls (Larus spp.), and pinniped species (Zalophus californianus, Mirounga angustirostris, and Phoca vitulina) due to fishing gear entanglement and ingestion from 2001…
- Report:
Fox
This deliverable provides a critical analysis of management measures that can be used to mitigate or manage the potential environmental effects of wave and tidal energy developments. The aim of this deliverable is to critically analyse the environmental mitigation and monitoring measures that have been used to date in completed or planned wave and tidal energy projects. This will provide…
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Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC)
This Annual Operations and Monitoring Report summarizes the 2013 operational and environmental monitoring activities associated with the Pacific Marine Energy Center’s North Energy Test Site, located off the coast of Newport, Oregon.
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SEER
This booklet is a compilation of educational research briefs developed as part of the U.S. Offshore Wind Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research (SEER) project. The topics for the briefs focus on the environmental effects of offshore wind energy and were chosen through extensive outreach …
- Journal Article:
Hasselman et al.
Global expansion of marine renewable energy (MRE) technologies is needed to help address the impacts of climate change, to ensure a sustainable transition from carbon-based energy sources, and to meet national energy security needs using locally-generated electricity. However, the MRE sector has yet to realize its full potential due to the limited scale of device deployments (i.e., single…
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Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is filing this license application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to authorize the construction and operation of the proposed PacWave South (Project; formerly known as Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site [PMEC-SETS]), a grid-connected wave energy test facility. The Project would be located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 6…
- Video:
Grear et al.
Commercial interest in developing floating wind energy in the deep waters of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf has raised questions about whales and other large cetaceans potentially encountering the mooring lines and electrical cables from a floating offshore wind farm. The BOEM Pacific Region asked the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create an animated simulation of a humpback…
- Summary:
OES-Environmental
As part of the risk retirement process, OES-Environmental has developed "evidence bases" for several key stressors. The evidence bases are lists of key research papers and monitoring reports for each stressor that support risk retirement for small numbers of MRE devices. The evidence base for entanglement includes studies on MRE, wind energy, and other analogous industries to aid understanding…
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OES-Environmental
Potential Entrapment of Marine Animals from Marine Renewable Energy: Entanglement Risk Most marine renewable energy (MRE) devices are attached to the seabed with mooring lines or anchors, which allow them to maintain their position within the water column or on the sea surface. In an array, cables are also used to…
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Copping et al.
The deployment and operation of a floating tidal technology in the United States require assessing environmental conditions and satisfying all environmental permitting requirements. Two locations in the United States are chosen to evaluate the potential for deployment of the Orbital Marine Power Ltd. floating technology: San Juan Islands (Washington) and Western Passage (Maine). This report…
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Williamson
This document reviews available information relating to barrier effects, entanglement risks from ghost fishing gear, and ElectroMagentic Fields (EMFs) with regards to marine mammals, diving seabirds, fish, and invertebrates at Floating Offshore Windfarms (FOW). To do this, available information from comparable offshore industries including fixed windfarms, Oil & Gas, aquaculture, etc., is…
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SEER
The U.S. Offshore Wind Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research (SEER) effort is a multi-year collaborative effort that will facilitate knowledge transfer for offshore wind research around the world to synthesize key issues and disseminate existing knowledge about environmental effects, inform applicability to U.S. waters, and prioritize future research needs.
- Journal Article:
Copping et al.
Many fish species are threatened worldwide by overfishing, contamination, coastal development, climate change, and other anthropogenic activities. Marine renewable energy (MRE) is under development as a sustainable alternative to carbon-based energy sources. Regulators and stakeholders worry that MRE devices will add another threat to fish populations already under pressure. This paper reviews…
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Courbis et al.
The project, “Technology Solutions to Mitigate Use Conflicts: Technology Needs for Scientifically Robust Wildlife Monitoring and Adaptive Management,” is identifying research and development needs for wildlife monitoring technologies for birds and marine mammals at offshore wind (OSW) farms. This includes a specific focus on developing technologies to 1) achieve statistically robust studies…
- Presentation:
Freeman et al.
This poster presentation covered the uncertainty about effects of marine renewable energy (MRE) and how this continues to slow consenting/permitting processes. Another argument presented was that sharing the considerable body of information on MRE environmental effects can facilitate decision-making and regulatory processes. Ocean Energy Systems (OES)-Environmental, an international initiative…
- Conference Paper:
Copping and Farr
This research examined the feasibility of developing small-scale OTEC (3-10 MW) in U.S. waters through case studies in four locations (i.e., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and Guam). In addition to talking to local leaders and experts in OTEC development and processes, we examined the likely environmental effects that will drive permitting (consenting) and licensing processes in the U.S. and…
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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) define cumulative effects as, “the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency (federal or non-federal) or person undertakes such other…
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Hasselman et al.
Global expansion of marine renewable energy (MRE) technologies is needed to help address the effects of climate change [1], to ensure a sustainable transition from carbon-based energy sources, and to meet energy security needs using locally generated electricity. Although the amount of potentially harvestable tidal stream and wave energy from nearshore regions around the world is sufficient to…
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Heerah et al.
Over the past decades, the technology boom associated with offshore renewable energy has led to the development of floating offshore wind farms in waters previously considered too deep for bottom-fixed wind farms (for example the floating wind farm Hywind Scotland commissioned in 2017). In France, several floating wind farm projects are scheduled to be brought into operation during the 2020s…
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