Impact evaluation and mitigation management at Werbig
Impact evaluation and mitigation management at Werbig
Example: Windfarm Werbig
The “Windfarm Werbig GmbH” has erected 3 wind generators 1.4 km northeast of Werbig in the Federal State of Brandenburg. Within the approval procedure OECOS was engaged to carry out a visual and ecologicical impact assessment, combined with an intervention compensation plan.
In order to ease the finding of the site for wind power plants the countryside in Brandenburg is zoned into "suitability-” “restriction-" and "taboo areas". Nevertheless an erection of wind power plants is always regarded as an intervention into nature and landscape according to the nature conservation law of Brandenburg (§ 10, para. 2, no. 9).
Interventions in nature and landscape will be approved, if they do not violate bans on protection area ordinances and if (A) avoidable interventions into nature and landscape are avoided, and if (B) inevitable impairments are removed or compensated within a reasonable period. The planning task was to fill out the mentioned specifications based on a careful survey and assessment of the ecological situation.