Peter Barham Seabed Users Developers Group E: peterjbarham@googlemail.com Gwyn Williams and Kate Jennings RSPB ‘The highly regulated industries that are represented in SUDG which develop the sea bed have extensive experience of working with others regulators and stakeholders, including the RSPB, to reduce and resolve environmental impacts and there are many successful examples of …
Category: 2015
Feb 04
A Strategic Approach to Cumulative Effects
Rachel Barker NIRAS Consulting Ltd, St Giles Court, Cambridge, CB3 0AJ T: 01223 803744 M: 07714 101842 E: reb@niras.com W: www.nirasconsulting.co.uk Cumulative effects can be considered as the combined effects of past, present and reasonably foreseeable activities over time, on environmental, economic and social receptors. An individual effect alone may be considered insignificant, but multiple …
Feb 04
The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon: a blueprint for a new kind of energy infrastructure
Mike Case Head of Turbines, Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd T: 01452 303892 E: mike.case@tidallagoonpower.com Tidal Lagoon Power is preparing to start construction of the world’s first tidal lagoon power plant in Swansea Bay in 2015. The 320MW installed capacity project will establish a blueprint for the rapid roll-out of a fleet of full-scale tidal lagoons …
Feb 04
Reducing the risk of consenting for Offshore Wind energy
Emilie Reeve Programme Manager, Offshore Renewable Joint Industry Programme, Carbon Trust, 4th Floor Dorset House, 27-45 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NT T: 020 7832 4511 E: emilie.reeve@carbontrust.com W: www.carbontrust.com/ORJIP Managed by the Carbon Trust, the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) is a joint industry programme between, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Marine …
Feb 04
Future prospects and challenges for the Wave and Tidal Stream Energy Sectors
Stephanie Merry Head of Marine, Renewable Energy Association T: 07786 543138 E: smerry@r-e-a.net W: http://www.r-e-a.net/ Within the global arena, the UK remains at the forefront of tidal wave and tidal stream energy sectors. This stems from: A plentiful marine energy resource – 50% of the European tidal stream resource and 30% of the European wave …
Feb 04
On the Edge – Coastal Management from a local authority perspective
Bill Parker Local Government Association Coastal Special Interest Group Lead Officer and Head of Coastal Management – Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils T: 01394 450709 E: bill.parker@eastsuffolk.gov.uk W: www.lgacoastalsig.com, www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk and www.waveney.gov.uk The Local Government Association Coastal Special Interest Group (SIG) is a group of more than 60 English Coastal Local Authorities working together …
Feb 04
Eliciting Private Sector Contributions and Participation for Projects-
Nick Lyness Wessex Flood & Coast Risk Manager, Environment Agency, Rivers House, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4YS T: 01278 484770 E: nick.lyness@environment-agency.gov.uk For the Environment Agency there is something in the adage about “adversity is the motherhood of invention” as we faced an impossible task of reconciling the widening financial gap between the need …
Feb 04
Shifting Shores – Practical Lessons from a Decade of Coastal Adaptation
Phil Dyke Coast and Marine Adviser, National Trust T: 07766 511323 E: phil.dyke@nationaltrust.org.uk Web: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shiftingshores The first piece of land given to the Trust in 1895 was five acres of gorse-covered cliff top at Dinas Oleu overlooking Cardigan Bay in Wales. Today the Trust cares for almost a tenth of the coastline in England, Wales …
Feb 04
The winter storms of 2014: oceanography and coastal impacts
Gerd Masselink Coastal Processes Research Group, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth T: 01752 585902 E: g.masselink@plymouth.ac.uk During the past winter, the southwest coast of England experienced an unprecedented sequence of exceptionally energetic wave conditions with maximum wave heights frequently exceeding 10 m. According to the Met Office, the storm Hercules on 6 …
Feb 04
The 2013 North Sea tidal surge – lessons and implications for future management of the natural environment
Tim Collins Natural England Principal Specialist – Coasts & Water T: 0300 060 0754 E: tim.collins@naturalengland.org.uk W: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england Last winter’s tidal surge, floods and storms had a substantive impact on the natural environment. The tidal surge led to the inundation of more than two thousand hectares of SSSI, through both the overtopping and breaching of …
