OES-Environmental hosted two online workshops with international regulators and advisors on 6 December 2022 on "Modeling Fish Interactions with Tidal Turbines". The workshops aimed to discuss OES-Environmental’s Guidance Documents for Risk Retirement, share tools to apply information on environmental effects of MRE, and seek feedback from international regulators and advisors engaged in consenting. The guidance documents bridge between scientific evidence and knowledge for regulatory processes. Out of the 48 registrants, there were 28 attendees from 11 countries across the two workshops in addition to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) team that hosted the workshop. 14 of the 28 attendees were regulators or advisors engaged in MRE and represented 5 countries.
Agenda
- Introduction
- Background and context
- OES-Environmental
- Stressor-receptor interactions
- Risk retirement and data transferability
- Moving from science to consenting
- Guidance Documents
- Overview
- Background document - regulatory categories and framework
- Questions
- Stressor-specific documents - evidence bases, matrix, management measures tool
- Example - Habitat change
- Breakout Groups
- Jamboards
- Discussion and feedback on:
- Regulatory categories and framework
- Risk retirement and data transferability
- Application and use of guidance documents
- Report Out
- Wrap Up and Feedback
- Guidance document outreach
- Other resources - MRE brochure, PRIMRE + Tethys, international tools
- Next steps
- Workshop feedback - online survey
Information from the event and the recording are available below.
Past Events
- OES-Environmental Workshop: Supporting Regulatory Decision-Making for Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy, Online, 1 February 2022 19:00-20:30 UTC