{"id":4188,"date":"2023-09-04T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:23:58","slug":"wind-farm-focus-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/2023\/09\/04\/wind-farm-focus-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Farm Focus Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/files\/2023\/09\/Wind-Farm-Focus-groups-Call-for-participants.pdf\">Wind Farm Focus groups &#8211; Call for participants<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Information about the project:\u00a0<\/b><b>Register for a focus group to discuss potential impacts of offshore wind on local communities!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">AECOM have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to conduct focus groups with members of the public from five different locations across coastal communities in Scotland. Focus<b>\u00a0<\/b>groups<b>\u00a0<\/b>in Stonehaven (Aberdeenshire), Dundee City and Buckie (Moray) will be held\u00a0<b>in person<\/b>; and focus<b>\u00a0<\/b>groups in Lewis (Na h-Eileanan Siar) and Orkney Island will be held\u00a0<b>online<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We want to hear from members of the public what specific social and economic issues they believe need to be considered for the development of offshore wind farms and decarbonisation to inform policy decisions. You do not need to a be a specialist in offshore wind, we are looking for people from different backgrounds who live in these five areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The focus groups are expected to take place between\u00a0<b>9<sup>th<\/sup>-31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0October 2023<\/b>\u00a0and last\u00a0<b>90-120 minutes<\/b>. Participants will be compensated with a \u00a340 voucher after attending the discussion. To register your interest, please complete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/forms.office.com\/r\/ukzXjWEekZ__;!!ETWISUBM!3YpHot00ADFa4drOoXCOsFAlQl9R_CdsXBrzS-_uRoaXVkuqEKGpStDOgapxtIvVdHREoYSeQrWE9mbmGh5Cp44ZS6A$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">this<\/a>\u00a0survey by\u00a0<b><u>24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September at 5:00pm<\/u><\/b><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">To maintain confidentiality, all personal information submitted in this survey will be stored on AECOM&#8217;s secure server in line with GDPR requirements and\u00a0deleted once the primary research is completed. All focus group contributions will remain anonymous on AECOM record and in publications. For more details on how we collect, handle and process personal data, please see the AECOM privacy notice:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/ca\/global-privacy-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/aecom.com\/ca\/global-privacy-statement\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">For any enquiries, please contact the AECOM project team via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:social-impact-OWF@aecom.com\" data-linkindex=\"2\">social-impact-OWF@aecom.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind Farm Focus groups &#8211; Call for participants Information about the project:\u00a0Register for a focus group to discuss potential impacts of offshore wind on local communities! AECOM have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to conduct focus groups with members of the public from five different locations across coastal communities in Scotland. Focus\u00a0groups\u00a0in Stonehaven (Aberdeenshire), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/2023\/09\/04\/wind-farm-focus-groups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wind Farm Focus Groups<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1811,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents-parantan","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/sats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}