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Wind farm winds up shipping interests
11 Sep 2008
It has been a mixed week for offshore wind farm
developments, with the UK's Chamber of Shipping expressing disappointment that the
government's Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
has given consent to the development of the West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm site
in Morecambe Bay.
The Chamber of Shipping is concerned the new wind farm could affect shipping to and from Douglas on the Isle of Man.
The Chamber, which is the trade association for the UK shipping industry, considers that the government has not taken into account either the safety of seafarers and passengers or the environmental costs of forcing ships to detour around the site.
This wind farm will sit across the normal shipping
route from Heysham to Douglas on the Isle of Man, which is also the bad weather
route to Northern Ireland for other ferry services.
While the consent requires the developer to negotiate compensation with shipping companies affected, the Chamber considers that very real safety and shipping concerns have been overridden.
Read the full story in the October issue of Maritime Journal.
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