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These data represent marine waters used for renewable energy, which includes systems designed to generate electricity from wind, wave, currents or tidal power using turbines, fixed or floating platforms, buoys, and/or dams, and associated offshore infrastructure including substructures, transmission hubs, generators, cables and service platforms. Excludes onshore power grids.
Renewable energy has been considered and tested in a number of locations in the study area, but currently there are no permanent renewable energy developments in operation. Interest has been shown in Makah Bay for wave energy and Willapa Bay for tidal energy, but neither project has moved forward. The community is concerned with visual impacts and effects on local economies, jobs, seabird populations, and local fisheries. Tribal uses of the ocean were not mapped explicitly, though tribal chairs and/or their designated representatives were formally invited by BOEM to participate in the mapping workshops. The sharing of tribal use information was dependent upon each tribe’s determination of whether the mapping workshops were an appropriate forum for sharing such information. Any tribal use information shared during the workshops was incorporated into the defined use categories. Thus, the atlas data and map products do not explicitly depict tribal use. |