Tidal Energy: Strategic Environmental Assessment Update for the Bay of Fundy

Biological/Ecological Effects, Geophysics/Hydrodynamics, Socio-economics: AECOM Canada Ltd. (2014)

Prepared for Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS

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In 2007 the Nova Scotia Department of Energy commissioned the Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia (OERA) to complete a Phase I Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to guide the development of tidal energy in the Bay of Fundy. Since that time, the tidal energy industry has evolved in Nova Scotia; consequently OERA commissioned this Phase II SEA Update to accomplish two primary objectives:

1. Describe the contemporary state of the tidal energy industry both regionally and globally; and,

2. Present the current scientific and community knowledge base on this subject in the Bay of Fundy.

Keywords: strategic environmental assessment, community engagement