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    "name": "Natural Heritage Evidence to Support Strategic Planning for Marine Renewable Energy",
    "description": "The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) is committed to working with regulators and developers to support the development of marine renewable energy in locations, and using technologies, that avoid significant adverse environmental impacts. The UK government is committed to producing 15 percent of all energy requirements from renewable sources by 2020. With approximately 1.5 percent of UK energy currently sourced from renewables, significant expansion will be needed to meet this target. As far as marine sources of renewable energy are concerned, UK government has to date relied on deployment of offshore wind to contribute to UK renewable energy targets and indications suggest that commercial scale (10 to 100MW) arrays of wave and tidal technologies are expected to commence largely post 2015 (DECC, 2010). CCW have undertaken to produce and share key synthesised evidence relating to Welsh natural heritage interests, in the form of GIS-based data layers, to be taken into account by strategic planning process for marine energy devices (wave and tidal stream). \r\n\r\nThe baseline layers highlight the breadth of natural heritage interests that need to be taken into account in strategic planning processes. The interpreted layers communicate the relative levels of risks to Wales' marine natural heritage from device deployment. Evidence layers have been produced for Welsh inshore territorial waters, from Mean High Water Spring baseline out to 12nm. The metadata describes the collation exercise, which was undertaken between Mar 2010 and Feb 2011. Temporal coverage of each of the baseline datasets is documented elsewhere. The environmental effects of marine renewable energy devices are not well understood and information about the marine environment is often limited, so this work is based on the best available information at the time of the study.\r\n\r\nThis information is considered a snapshot in time and may be kept for archive puposes only. Newer data products may be available though the WG Marine Planning Portal.",
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        "access: The following data is considered OS derived data and is therefore jointly owned by NRW and the Ordnance Survey. NRW may release, publish or disseminate this data freely; providing recipients are made aware of use restrictions (See general use restrictions).",
        "access: no limitations",
        "use: \u00a9 CNC/NRW and \u00a9 Crown copyright 2011. All rights reserved. Natural Resources Wales, AC0000849444 Third parties seeking to re-use this data require a Licence issued by NRW. It allows re-use, reproduction and dissemination in any format or medium but only for non-commercial purposes, according to the terms and conditions of the Licence. Those seeking commercial re-use require a commercial licence available from the OS."
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