A growing proportion of the UK’s energy infrastructure is located at sea, in the form of oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms along with the connecting cables and pipelines.
A growing proportion of the UK’s energy infrastructure is located at sea, in the form of oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms along with the connecting cables and pipelines.
But determining the most sustainable and socially desirable options for decommissioning these Marine Artificial Structures (MAS), once they reach the end of their operational lives, is a key challenge facing industry, policy makers, regulators and civil society.
A new project aims to address this by exploring some of the diverse public and stakeholder attitudes and perceptions towards the ecological, economic and social evidence for different decommissioning options.
Read More at: University of Plymouth
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