This environmental impact assessment for Kriegers flak ... - Vattenfall
This environmental impact assessment for Kriegers flak ... - Vattenfall
This environmental impact assessment for Kriegers flak ... - Vattenfall
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6 PREAMBLE AND READER NOTES<br />
1. Preamble and reader notes<br />
Sweden Offshore Wind AB (hereinafter Sweden Offshore) is developing a wind<br />
farm on <strong>Kriegers</strong> Flak, an area in the southern Baltic Sea outside of Swedish territorial<br />
waters, situated about 30 km south of Trelleborg.<br />
The wind farm will consist of maximum 128 wind turbines with a total installed<br />
capacity of maximum 640 MW.<br />
<strong>This</strong> document constitutes an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in accordance<br />
with Chapter 6 of the Swedish Environmental Code (EC).<br />
In accordance with the EC, Chapter 6, Section 7, an EIA shall contain the following<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation:<br />
• A non-technical summary<br />
• A description of the planned activity (location, design, scope etc.)<br />
• A description of alternative locations and designs<br />
• A description of the consequences of not implementing the planned activity<br />
• A description of the <strong>impact</strong> on human health, the environment and the economising<br />
of land and water resources<br />
• A description of actions to minimise <strong>impact</strong><br />
The purpose of an EIA is to identify and describe the direct and indirect effects<br />
that a planned activity or action may have on humans, animals, fauna, land, water,<br />
air, climate, landscape and cultural heritage, partly also on the economising<br />
of land, water and the physical environment in general and partly on the economising<br />
with raw material, energy and other materials.<br />
Further, the purpose is to facilitate a collected view of these effects on human<br />
health and the environment.<br />
<strong>This</strong> EIA primarily deals with the wind farm. However, it also deals with the<br />
cabling within the Swedish Economic Zone. There<strong>for</strong>e, and as the cabling is<br />
a precondition <strong>for</strong> the realisation of the project, certain in<strong>for</strong>mation about the<br />
cabling has been included in this document (Chapter 16).<br />
The cabling within Swedish territorial water will be subject to a separate permitting<br />
process in due course.