Despite the fact that the federal government issued citations against BP that said it failed to protect safety and the environment in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill disaster (trial date February 2012), they are allowing the company to bid for new oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Michael Bromwich, the head [...]
Deepwater Wind is a privately held American wind power developer with plans to build the largest offshore wind farm in the United States. The 1,000 Megawatt utility-scale project is targeted for the deep water off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This is a very ambitious plan considering that Cape Wind, a project that [...]
Two separate whale strandings in Massachusetts have been linked by unusual species identification this week by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the New England Aquarium (NEAq). One pilot whale stranded in Duxburyon Monday followed by another pilot whale in Truro on Tuesday. Pilot whale strandings are relatively uncommon, but what makes these cases especially unique is that [...]
The Food and Drug Administration seriously underestimated the cancer risk from contaminants that can accumulate in seafood when the agency allowed commercial fishing to resume in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill disaster, a new study published today found. The study was published online today by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, authored [...]
The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, and philanthropist Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the prize purse, awarded two winning teams of the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. The first place team, Elastec/American Marine, from Illinois, USA, and [...]
New Zealand is home to some of the most picturesque land in the world and is now confronting the worst maritime environmental disaster in their history. The Kiwi’s plight does not come as a result of drilling for oil off their beautiful coast but instead from a 775 foot cargo ship flying the flag of [...]
Resorts and towns along Mexico’s pacific coast, often referred to as the Mexican Riviera, are bracing for the landfall of category 2 hurricane Jova. Authorities have evacuated residents in vulnerable areas and set up shelters. They have also closed one the country’s busiest cargo ports in Manzanillo, due to the potential storm surge danger. The [...]
Although the deployment challenges of developing offshore wind power generation facilities are significantly greater than on land, developers, manufacturers, governments, and investors are now turning their attention to offshore wind farms as a means of further expanding wind power capacity. The reasons for this interest are several: Some of the world’s best wind resources are [...]
A coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups have challenged BOEMRE’s August 4th conditional approval of Shell’s Beaufort Sea exploration plan by appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit Court. Shell plans to dril four wells in the Beaufort Sea, starting in 2012. Earthjustice, on behalf of the Native Village of Point Hope, [...]
Offshore wind energy promises stronger breezes, cheaper real estate, and proximity to population centers. But difficulties in studying wind speeds over the open ocean leave energy producers unable to fully capitalize on the power of offshore wind. To address this problem, the Department of Energy funded a research collaboration, led by Dr. Thomas Herrington of [...]
A New Zealand designed and developed wave power device has won a prestigious grant totaling more than NZ$2 million from the US Department of Energy for a project to deploy its device in the United States. Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ) has developed a ¼-scale wave power device which produces 2kW of power. It has been deployed [...]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster of 2010 highlighted the disfunctional relationship that the Minerals Management Service, the regulator responsible for overseeing the oil industry, had with the very companies they were supposed to regulate. In response, the Obama administration created the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement ( BOEMRE). The final step in the re-organization [...]
The European Commission calls on Italy to take measures and comply with an October 2009 Court of Justice ruling on Italy’s continued illegal use of drift-nets. The Court found that Italy had failed to adequately control and enforce the EU ban on the use of drift-nets. Safeguarding of fish stocks and the eradication of illegal [...]
BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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