October 1, 2023
Australia, Economics, Environment, Noise, Wildlife

Key environmental factors for offshore windfarm environmental impact assessment

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia

  1. Underwater noise – Mortality, injury and behavioural effects
  2. Turbine interactions – Injury and mortality to birds and bats
  3. Electromagnetic fields
  4. Seabed disturbance – Loss of/harm to benthic habitats
  5. Disturbance of underwater cultural heritage
  6. Physical presence – Effects on hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes
  7. Physical presence – Barrier effects and displacement of marine fauna
  8. Light emissions
  9. Vessel interactions – Injury and mortality to marine fauna
  10. Invasive marine species
  11. Physical presence – Socioeconomic: interference/displacement of existing uses
  12. Physical presence – Socioeconomic: seascapes and visual amenity
  13. Multiple impact pathways – Australian marine parks and their values
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Impact pathways. DCCEEW, July 2023

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