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BOC Immingham Dissolved Acetylene Project Environmental Statement: Vol. 2 Main Text
Consultation
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Date of
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Consultees Responses Comments ES Response
Great Crested Newts (GCNs) there were several water bodies identified in
the scoping report that are within 500 m of the development site that were
considered to be “Good” for use by individual GCN’s and, in some cases,
for breeding populations. NE requests additional information in the ES on
potential impacts to GCNs and potential mitigation measures for these
particular water bodies.
Noise Section 11.7. NE requests more information on the potential
impacts of construction noise on SPA designated bird species. The
construction activity likely to create the most disturbance to birds is piling.
NE recommends displaying this information in the form of a worst case
scenario noise plot showing the dissipation of piling construction noise
over distance.
Air quality NE welcomes the consideration of statutory ecological
designations within 10 km of the development site and requests that the
applicant provides additional information with regard to air quality impacts
on specific designated habitat types. This information can be found on
Natural England’s APIS website (www.apis.ac.uk) and includes critical
loads for sensitive habitat types that should not be exceeded. We would
recommend including background deposition levels for the habitat types in
each of the designated sites, the critical loads (CL), the Process
Contribution (PC) of the development the Predicted Environmental
Contribution (PEC = PC + Background) as well as the PEC and PC as a
percentage of the upper and lower CL levels.
GCNs are discussed in Chapter 10 (Ecology).
Comments noted and addressed in Chapter 10
(Ecology). The piling noise contours are provided in
Appendix 11B.
Comments noted and addressed in Chapter 6 (Air
Quality).
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