This environmental impact assessment for Kriegers flak ... - Vattenfall

8 PREAMBLE AND READER NOTES
Here, topics such as hydrography, seabed conditions, wind conditions, occurrence
of animals, plants and shipwrecks/ancient remains are discussed. Also, the
importance to Þ shing, navigation, recreation and exploitation of natural resources
are discussed. Finally, a description of the landscape view is made.
Chapter 12 describes and assesses the environmental impact that may occur as
a consequence of building the wind farm.
The chapter takes account of what has already been discussed (for example
humans, animals and navigation) and thereafter describes the way in which the
impact occurs (for example through noise and vibrations). Thereafter the scale of
the impact is assessed. In order to make the assessments consequent and for the
reader to easier comprehend the background of the assessments, the bases for the
assessments that have been used are described.
As mentioned above, a further wind farm is being developed at Kriegers Flak
within the German Economic Zone. As it is possible that both the German and
the Swedish projects will receive full permitting, it is interesting to investigate
which consequences, i.e. cumulative effects, the building of both these projects
could have. An assessment of the cumulative effects is made in Chapter 13.
Comprehensive control programmes will be conducted in order to establish
possible impact on fauna and animals living on the seabed, on Þ sh, birds, hydrography
(salt water impact) and sea trafÞ c. The control programmes that have
been devised are summarised in Chapter 14.
A collected assessment of the project is made in Chapter 15. The chapter has
been divided into effects on a global, regional and local level. On a local level,
the effects are divided into the development, operation and dismantling phases.
A short summary of the cabling, its design and environmental impact is presented
in Chapter 16
The document ends with a reference section (Chapter 17), abbreviations and
explanations (Chapter 18) and a register of appendices (Chapter 19).
The investigations and studies that are appended hereto have, as and when they
were completed, been added to the main document in order to be able to read
the EIA as an independent document. It is the opinion of Sweden Offshore that
this EIA even without the appendices fulÞ l the requirements of Chapter 6 of the
EC. The appendices can therefore be regarded as extra curricular but have been
appended for the sake of completeness and to satisfy those readers that wish or
may need to go deeper into special sections of the EIA. As the appendices that
constitute visualisations may be regarded as of special interest, these are attached
both as appendices and as separate documents at the end of this EIA.