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CliffDweller on October 31, 2006 - 12:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
From the E-Connections website on the Q7 windfarm, I found this: "For safety reasons the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Watermanagement will close off a zone of 500 meters surrounding the wind farm for all ships." Can anyone say whether this closure is permanent or just for construction? Is such a closure a usual occurence for an offshore wind farm?
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Jerome a Paris on October 31, 2006 - 12:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It will be permanent, I imagine, to avoid collisions at sea. The farm was built outside of shipping lanes, radar areas, birs migratory paths, pipelines; etc..., so that area was not used in anyway. Now it is used and thus has its buffer zone on the maps. In practice it should not change much.
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nero on October 31, 2006 - 3:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Does this exclude all comercial fishing as well?  What does the opperator pay for the use of the sea area?  I'm curious to know if such developments might be good for the fish stocks.
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Nick on October 31, 2006 - 3:38pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Horns Rev in Denmark has been good for fish stocks.
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