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Offshore wind power projects in the Great Lakes: Background information and science considerations for fish and fish habitat
Subject area Source title Institution Type of information Link
Mitigation
options
(general)
Mitigation
options
(specific
effects)
• 2006 Project Completion
Report: Conserving Great
Lakes Aquatic Habitat from
Lakebed Alteration Proposals
• Ontario Operational Statements
• Report to Congress on the
Potential Environmental Effects
of Marine and Hydrokinetic
Energy Technologies
• Cape Wind Energy Project
Final Environmental Impact
Statement
• Final Technical Guidance for
Assessment and Mitigation of
the Hydroacoustic Effects of
Pile Driving on Fish
• Assessment and Costs of
Potential Engineering Solutions
for the Mitigation of the
Impacts of Underwater Noise
Arising from the Construction
of Wind Farms
• Great Lakes Fishery
Commission,
Position Statement
(2006)
• Fisheries and
Oceans Canada,
Operational
Statements (2009)
• US Department of
Energy, Report
(2009)
• US Department of
the Interior-Minerals
Management
Service,
Environmental
Impact Statement
(2009)
• California
Department of
Transportation,
Technical Guidance
Manual (2009)
• UK Collaborative
Offshore Wind
Research Into the
Environment, Report
(2007)
• Recommended guidelines for
evaluating lakebed alteration projects
and protecting bottomland resources,
guidelines to avoid/mitigate impacts to
the ecosystem; analysis of legal
framework for regulating structures
• Prescribed mitigation plans to avoid
HADD in Ontario i.e. Ontario in-water
construction timing windows, methods
to protect fish/fish habitat during highpressure
directional drilling, dredging,
and underwater cable installation
• Mitigation options to address specific
environmental effects of offshore
structures, the role of adaptive
management in evaluating and
mitigating effects
• Description of environmental
mitigation measures proposed for all
potential effects during construction
and operation of the Cape Wind
offshore wind power project
• Measures to avoid or minimize pile
driving impacts, best management
practices, performance standards,
methods to measure and calculate
underwater noise levels
• Setting targets for noise mitigation,
methods to reduce underwater noise,
assessment and need for further
development
http://www.glfc.org/research/rep
orts/Dempsey.pdf
http://www.dfompo.gc.ca/regions/central/habitat/os-eo/provinces-territoriesterritoires/on/index-eng.htm
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/win
dandhydro/pdfs/doe_eisa_633b.p
df
http://www.boemre.gov/offshore/
AlternativeEnergy/PDFs/FEIS/C
ape%20Wind%20Energy%20Pro
ject%20FEIS.pdf
http://www.apevibro.com/pdfs/G
uidance_Manual_Sound_and_Un
derwater_Piledriving.pdf
http://www.offshorewindfarms.c
o.uk/Assets/COWRIE-
ENGFinal270907.pdf
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