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North Irish Sea Array (NISA) Windfarm Limited, which is a fully owned subsidiary of Statkraft Ireland Ltd.
Building 4200, Cork Airport Business Park, Co. Cork, T12 D23C.
Description:
This Foreshore Licence application is for site investigation surveys necessary to determine the seabed and sub-sea conditions to establish the optimum location for and design of the export cable(s) to shore, and to establish the most appropriate route corridor and landfall location for the export cable(s) from the proposed North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind farm, located off the coasts of Dublin, Meath and Louth.
The application includes for geophysical surveys (mutli-beam echo sounder, sub bottom profiling, side-scan sonar and magnetometer), geotechnical surveys (cone penetration tests and vibrocores along the potential routes and boreholes at the landfalls) and ecological surveys (fisheries surveys, benthic grab samples, intertidal benthic sampling).
Location:
Off the coast of County Louth, County Meath, County Dublin.
This public consultation, which originally ran from 16 March 2022 to 15 April 2022, has now been reopened until 19 May 2022.
Viewing Locations:
A copy of the application and the relevant documents, maps, plans, and drawings, are available for inspection, between 20 April 2022 and 19 May 2022, free of charge at:
• Fingal County Council, County Hall, Main Street, Swords, County Dublin K67 X8Y2
• Louth County Council, County Hall, Millennium Centre, Dundalk, A91 KFW6
• Balbriggan Garda Station, Drogheda Road, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 EW01
• Drogheda Garda Station, Father Connolly Way, Downtown Drogheda, Drogheda, Co. Louth, A92 P704
• Louth County Library, Roden Place, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth A91 RC44
• Fingal County Library, St George's Square, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin K32 TW27
Commencement Date:
20/04/2022
Closing Date:
19/05/2022
Application documents are also available on this Department's website at the following URL: FS007358 Statkraft North Irish Sea Array (NISA) Site Investigations for Export Cable Route
Making a submission:
Submissions can be made to: Foreshore Unit, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Newtown Road, Wexford, Co Wexford or email foreshoreORE@housing.gov.ie
Please ensure the following reference is quoted in the submission header: FS007358 NISA Cable SI - Consultation on Stage 2 AA
Submissions received outside of the public consultation period cannot be considered.
The Department wishes to draw attention to its policy on defamatory material that may be contained in submissions it receives.
Terms and Conditions
All submissions and comments submitted to the Department for this purpose are subject to release under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014 and the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007-2014. Submissions are also subject to Data Protection legislation.
Personal, confidential or commercially sensitive information should not be included in your submission and it will be presumed that all information contained in your submission is releasable under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.
What we will do with your response
The information provided by respondents will inform the decision-making process regarding this foreshore consent application.
Please note that submissions received may be made available on the Department’s website, unless otherwise requested. In any event, all submissions received will be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection legislation.
See also the Privacy Statement and the Department's Data Protection Policy under the document links below.
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