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Metadata: 2010 - 2012, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd, Zone 1 - Moray Firth, Environmental Statement
Abstract:
This Environmental Statement (ES) has been prepared by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd (MORL) to accompany the consent applications under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989, Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, to construct, operate and decommission three wind farm sites (Telford Offshore Wind Farm, Stevenson Offshore Wind Farm and MacColl Offshore Wind Farm). MORL has applied for a Marine Licence for each wind farm site to allow deposition of infrastructure on the seabed. A single Marine Licence application has been submitted to support the offshore aspects of MORL’s Transmission Infrastructure (TI). An application for planning permission for the onshore aspects of the TI will be submitted to the relevant authorities, supported by this ES and such further information as is required to support the planning application. The consent applications will be determined by the Scottish Ministers, acting through Marine Scotland Licensing Operations Team (MS-LOT). Onshore consent will be determined by the Local Planning Authority (LPA) Aberdeenshire Council. This ES comprises the following volumes: ? Volume 1 – Non Technical Summary; ? Volume 2 – Project Background, Project Details and Description of the Environment; ? Volume 3 – Offshore Generating Station Environmental Impact Assessment; ? Volume 4 – Transmission Infrastructure Environmental Impact Assessment; ? Volume 5 – Whole Project Assessment and Cumulative Impact Assessment; ? Volume 6 – Figures; ? Volume 7 – Seascape, Landscape and Visual Receptor Figures and Photomontages; and ? Volumes 8-11 – Technical Appendices.
Data holder:
Crown Estate Scotland
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 18339 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2010 - 2012, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd, Zone 1 - Moray Firth, Environmental Statement |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Environmental Statement |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 167dd83b-e4e3-481b-915f-b54d0b6503e4 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | CES-348 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2010-01-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2012-07-30 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This Environmental Statement (ES) has been prepared by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd (MORL) to accompany the consent applications under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989, Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, to construct, operate and decommission three wind farm sites (Telford Offshore Wind Farm, Stevenson Offshore Wind Farm and MacColl Offshore Wind Farm). MORL has applied for a Marine Licence for each wind farm site to allow deposition of infrastructure on the seabed. A single Marine Licence application has been submitted to support the offshore aspects of MORL’s Transmission Infrastructure (TI). An application for planning permission for the onshore aspects of the TI will be submitted to the relevant authorities, supported by this ES and such further information as is required to support the planning application. The consent applications will be determined by the Scottish Ministers, acting through Marine Scotland Licensing Operations Team (MS-LOT). Onshore consent will be determined by the Local Planning Authority (LPA) Aberdeenshire Council. This ES comprises the following volumes: ? Volume 1 – Non Technical Summary; ? Volume 2 – Project Background, Project Details and Description of the Environment; ? Volume 3 – Offshore Generating Station Environmental Impact Assessment; ? Volume 4 – Transmission Infrastructure Environmental Impact Assessment; ? Volume 5 – Whole Project Assessment and Cumulative Impact Assessment; ? Volume 6 – Figures; ? Volume 7 – Seascape, Landscape and Visual Receptor Figures and Photomontages; and ? Volumes 8-11 – Technical Appendices. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This assessment of baseline physical processes has been sub-divided into three categories, namely: ? Hydrodynamic regime: water levels, currents, waves and stratification; ? Sediment regime: seabed sediment distribution, bedload and suspended load transport; and ? Morphodynamic regime: form and function of both the coast and offshore, the morphodynamic regime is defined as a response to both the hydrodynamic and sediment regime. The baseline assessment describes the natural variability of these regimes prior to the construction of the three proposed wind farms and transmission export cable. This provides the reference conditions against which to compare the proposed wind farm enabling, and providing the basis to inform the assessment of the significance of any consequential changes to the baseline. The baseline environment is not static and will exhibit some degree of natural change with or without the wind farm in place due to naturally occurring cycles and processes. Therefore, when undertaking impact assessments it becomes relevant to place any potential impacts of the MORL EDA in the context of the envelope of change that might occur naturally over the timescale of the development. For example, it is generally anticipated that climate change will result in global scale effects which will be represented at regional scales by the trends in rising mean sea level and increased storminess (Lowe et al., 2009). This baseline assessment of the physical processes has been developed through the analysis and interpretation of data and information from a variety of sources, including a programme of site surveys, pre-existing datasets, available literature sources and output from numerical modelling. These are further detailed in Section 2.7 |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fishing effort |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Water quality bioindicators | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seabed photography | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Contaminant fluxes between the terrestrial and marine environment | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Acoustic noise in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine archaeology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Hazards to navigation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine environment leisure usage | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Shellfish reproduction | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird reproduction | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Coastal geomorphology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish abundance in water bodies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geotechnics | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sediment grain size parameters | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Wave direction | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Elevation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Land vegetation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Wave height estimates | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat characterisation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Consenting | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore Substation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zone search area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Cable Landfall | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore Cable Corridor | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Onshore Substation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Onshore Cable corridor | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Land use | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 58.322968 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -2.669726 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 57.503955 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.617783 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd | |
| info@morayoffshorerenewables.co.uk | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Crown Estate Scotland | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 260 6070 | |
| enquiries@crownestatescotland.com | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd | |
| info@morayoffshorerenewables.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Crown Estate Scotland | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 260 6070 | |
| enquiries@crownestatescotland.com | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd | |
| info@morayoffshorerenewables.co.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-348/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2026-09-08 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-09-27 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-09-08 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |