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MacArthur Green prioritises effective health and wellbeing of our team. We treat health and safety as an integral part of all projects, not a bolt-on extra. With that in mind, we have an experienced Health & Safety Manager to manage the health and safety of our team, and also between the client/developer/principal contractor.

This means we build closer working relationships and have greater co-ordination with our clients, by having timely and relevant conversations about health & safety and identification of site hazards.

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A Wee Bit More About Us

MacArthur Green set up in 2009. Since then none of our clients have been refused planning consent for ecology, ornithology, hydrology and peat.

Read here to find out how we came into being, and how we have grown from a one-man-band to helping some of Scotland’s biggest infrastructure projects.

MacArthur Green Approach

We provide ecology, ornithology, and peat services throughout the life cycle of a development. With any advice we give, we always adopt a holistic approach in order to ensure long term robust advice for our clients.

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About Us

MacArthur Green is a specialist environmental consultancy. We are dedicated to helping projects that are important to nature succeed, and leaving a positive environmental legacy doing so.

We work with our clients to provide expert ornithology, ecology, peat services, and related policy advice.

Our respected in-house team have a unique skill set which covers the commercial and technical dimensions of development to provide sound and pragmatic advice.

Our strength as an environmental consultancy lies in the fact that we have the flexibility and dynamism of a small and personable company, combined with the commercial know-how and professionalism required by our clients.

We focus on supporting renewables and energy clients, and we are privileged to act as trusted advisors to a developers, regulators and statutory agencies alike.

We are based in Glasgow and work throughout Scotland, and occasionally further afield.

Careers with MacArthur Green

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Latest News

Wind farm construction: good practice guidance from SNH

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has developed guidance on Good Practice during Wind Farm Construction to help address the effects on the natural environment.

Developers, planning officers, construction firms and others can use the guidance at the post-consent, pre-construction planning phase of wind farm development.

The guidance focuses covers pollution prevention, nature conservation, landscape and hydrology.

Read more here: https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/planning-and-development/renewable-energy-development/types-renewable-technologies/onshore-wind-energy/wind-farm-construction

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New Bat Guidance for Onshore Wind Turbines

The new guidance ‘BATS AND ONSHORE WIND TURBINES: SURVEY, ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION’ has been issued by SNH.

This guidance changes the requirements for bat surveys, assessment, mitigation and monitoring for onshore wind farm sites. In particular, in provides a detailed risk assessment method to establish if turbine curtailment is required to mitigate bat mortaility from collision with blades.

Read our summary note of the key points that developers should be aware of for their projects.

Please see here for the link to the full SNH guidance: https://www.nature.scot/bats-and-onshore-wind-turbines-survey-assessment-and-mitigation

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MACARTHUR GREEN’S MARINE RENEWABLES RESEARCH PROGRAMME

With The Crown Estate recently announcing their proposed plans for Round 4 offshore wind leasing, it is a good time to provide an update on the marine ornithological research work MacArthur Green is supporting.

Since 2011, MacArthur Green has supported 8 PhD research projects. The aim is to reduce uncertainty over ornithological impacts of marine renewable projects by improving evidence-based decision making.

To deliver these research projects, we are working with key organisations from academia, government and industry. By producing this important research, we will also be contributing to the training of future skilled ornithological scientist in the field, who will hopefully go on to work in marine renewables. For more detail on the research projects, please read our update here.

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