Government Seeks Views on New Marine Recovery Fund.
The UK government’s Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) intends to establish a Marine Recovery Fund (MRF) for use by relevant offshore wind activity across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Once operational, it will be a voluntary mechanism that organisations undertaking relevant offshore wind activities (such as developers or plan promoters) can pay into to secure appropriate and strategic compensatory measures to compensate for the adverse environmental impacts of their projects on protected sites.
Defra is consulting with stakeholders in order to test the design and proposed policy of the MRF and gain evidence to strengthen the policy.
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