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Key environmental factors for offshore windfarm environmental impact assessment
Author: | Australia, Economics, Environment, Noise, Wildlife | Australia, Economics, Environment, Noise, Wildlife
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- Underwater noise – Mortality, injury and behavioural effects
- Turbine interactions – Injury and mortality to birds and bats
- Electromagnetic fields
- Seabed disturbance – Loss of/harm to benthic habitats
- Disturbance of underwater cultural heritage
- Physical presence – Effects on hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes
- Physical presence – Barrier effects and displacement of marine fauna
- Light emissions
- Vessel interactions – Injury and mortality to marine fauna
- Invasive marine species
- Physical presence – Socioeconomic: interference/displacement of existing uses
- Physical presence – Socioeconomic: seascapes and visual amenity
- Multiple impact pathways – Australian marine parks and their values
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