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K45: Full Chain Public and Stakeholder Engagement Commercial; Project Management January 2016 K45: Full chain public and stakeholder engagement Commercial; Project Management K45: Full chain public and stakeholder engagement IMPORTANT NOTICE The information provided further to UK CCS Commercialisation Programme (the Competition) set out herein (the Information) has been prepared by Capture Power Limited and its sub-contractors (the Consortium) solely for the Department of Energy and Climate Change in connection with the Competition. The Information does not amount to advice on CCS technology or any CCS engineering, commercial, financial, regulatory, legal or other solutions on which any reliance should be placed. Accordingly, no member of the Consortium makes (and the UK Government does not make) any representation, warranty or undertaking, express or implied, as to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of any of the Information and no reliance may be placed on the Information. In so far as permitted by law, no member of the Consortium or any company in the same group as any member of the Consortium or their respective officers, employees or agents accepts (and the UK Government does not accept) any responsibility or liability of any kind, whether for negligence or any other reason, for any damage or loss arising from any use of or any reliance placed on the Information or any subsequent communication of the Information. Each person to whom the Information is made available must make their own independent assessment of the Information after making such investigation and taking professional technical, engineering, commercial, regulatory, financial, legal or other advice, as they deem necessary. The contents of this report draw on work partly funded under the European Union’s European Energy Programme for Recovery. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained within this document. K45: Full chain public and stakeholder engagement Contents Chapter Title Page Executive Summary i 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background _______________________________________________________________________ 1 1.2 White Rose CCS (Generating Station) DCO ______________________________________________ 1 1.3 Yorkshire and Humber Cross Country Pipeline DCO ________________________________________ 1 2 White Rose CCS (Generating Station) DCO 3 2.1 The Background to the Project _________________________________________________________ 3 2.2 The Applicant ______________________________________________________________________ 4 2.3 The Project Site ____________________________________________________________________ 4 2.4 The Project ________________________________________________________________________ 5 2.5 Summary of Stakeholder Processes ____________________________________________________ 9 3 Legislative Context and Compliance 12 3.1 Legislative Context _________________________________________________________________ 12 3.1.1 Overview of the DCO Regime ________________________________________________________ 12 3.1.2 Legislative Requirements for Pre-application Consultation and Publicity ________________________ 13 4 The Applicants approach to Consultation 16 4.1 Consultation objectives______________________________________________________________ 16 4.2 Consultation best practice Advice and Guidance __________________________________________ 16 4.3 Definition of the Consultation area _____________________________________________________ 17 4.4 Consultation process and methods ____________________________________________________ 19 4.5 Recording, Analysing and Responding to Consultation _____________________________________ 21 5 Non-Statutory Consultation 23 5.1 Who was consulted? _______________________________________________________________ 23 5.2 How were they consulted? ___________________________________________________________ 23 5.3 What were they consulted upon/what information was provided? _____________________________ 24 5.4 When did the consultation take place ___________________________________________________ 24 5.5 How could feedback be provided ______________________________________________________ 25 5.6 Response to the consultation _________________________________________________________ 25 6 Statutory consultation: identifying consultees 26 6.1 Section 42 “Duty to consult” __________________________________________________________ 26 6.2 Section 42(a) – Such persons as may be prescribed _______________________________________ 26 6.3 Section 42(b) – Each local authority that is within S.43 _____________________________________ 27 6.4 Section 42(d) – Each person in one or more of the categories set out in Section 44 _______________ 27 6.5 Non-prescribed consultees ___________________________________________________________ 29 6.6 Section 47 “Duty to consult local community” _____________________________________________ 29 6.7 Section 48 “Duty to publicise” _________________________________________________________ 30 7 Section 47: Preparation of the Statement of Community Consultation 31 7.1 Background to the preparation of the SoCC ______________________________________________ 31 The contents of this report draw on work partly funded under the European Union’s European Energy Programme for Recovery. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained within this document. K45: Full chain public and stakeholder engagement 7.2 Statutory consultation on the Draft SoCC ________________________________________________ 32 7.3 Non-statutory consultation on a revised Draft SoCC _______________________________________ 33 7.4 Publication of the SoCC Notice and final SoCC ___________________________________________ 34 8 Section 47: Duty to Consult Local Community 35 8.1 Who was consulted? _______________________________________________________________ 35 8.1.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 35 8.1.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 35 8.2 How were they consulted? ___________________________________________________________ 36 8.2.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 36 8.2.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 37 8.3 What were they consulted upon/what information was provided? _____________________________ 38 8.3.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 38 8.3.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 38 8.4 When did the consultation take place/deadlines for responses _______________________________ 39 8.4.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 39 8.4.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 40 8.5 How could feedback be provided ______________________________________________________ 41 8.5.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 41 8.5.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 41 8.6 Response to the consultation _________________________________________________________ 41 8.6.1 Stage 1 __________________________________________________________________________ 41 8.6.2 Stage 2 __________________________________________________________________________ 42 8.7 Compliance with the SoCC ___________________________________________________________ 43 9 Section 42: Duty to Consult 45 9.1 Who was consulted? _______________________________________________________________ 45 9.2 How were they consulted? ___________________________________________________________ 45 9.3 What were they consulted upon/what information was provided? _____________________________ 46 9.4 When did the consultation take place/deadlines for responses _______________________________ 47 9.5 How could feedback be provided? _____________________________________________________ 48 9.6 Response to the consultation _________________________________________________________ 48 10 Section 46: Duty to Notify Secretary of State of Proposed Application 49 11 Section 48: Duty to Publicise 51 12 EIA related Consultation 54 12.1 EIA Notification and Scoping – Regulations 6(1) and 8(1) ___________________________________ 54 12.2 EIA Transboundary Effects – Regulation 24 ______________________________________________ 55 12.3 Approach to Preparation and Publication of Preliminary Environmental Information _______________ 55 12.4 EIA Regulation 11 Notification ________________________________________________________ 56 12.5 Preparation and Finalisation of the ES __________________________________________________ 56 13 Section 49: Duty to take account of responses to Consultation and Publicity 57 13.1 Summary ________________________________________________________________________ 58 14 Other Consultation and Engagement 60 The contents of this report draw on work partly funded under the European Union’s European Energy Programme for Recovery. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained within this document. K45: Full chain public and stakeholder engagement 14.1 PINS Consultation _________________________________________________________________ 60 14.2 Local Community and political representatives ___________________________________________ 60 14.3 Local Authorities and Technical Consultees ______________________________________________ 61 14.4 Examination phase _________________________________________________________________
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