In a major legal victory today for Cape Wind, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in two decisions unanimously upheld the long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between Cape Wind and National Grid. “This decision provides a big boost for creating up to 1,000 jobs and providing Massachusetts with cleaner air, greater energy independence and a [...]
You won’t find Spirobranchus giganteus, also known as the Christmas tree worm, eating your fir tree this year. The common name for these worms is derived from their appearance, not their habitat or diet. Each worm has two brightly colored crowns that protrude from its tube-like body. These Christmas tree-like crowns are composed of radioles, [...]
Over the past decade, the greater Gulf of Mexico region has been battered not only by hurricanes and oil spills, but by numerous natural and human-caused events such as tornadoes, droughts, harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and wildfire. The impacts from these events have lasting effects on vital economic drivers such as fishing, boating and [...]
The offshore marine energy project in Cornwall, which allows developers to test new wave energy technology, will be taken on by the Government to secure its future as a vital part of the UK’s green energy sources. Wave Hub provides a shared offshore infrastructure for the demonstration and proving of arrays of wave energy generation devices [...]
The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a new NOAA-led study published today in a special issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and NOAA’s Cooperative Institute [...]
Against what many would call astronomical odds, a small midwestern U.S. company, Tremont Electric, has been granted US Patent 8,022,563 for the nPower® Wave Energy Converter (WEC), a commercial scale application of Tremont Electric’s nPower® kinetic energy harvesting technology. We are proud to put Cleveland, Ohio at the cutting edge of clean energy technology with [...]
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Research Board has issued a new request for proposals, RFP-II, which will provide up to $7.5 million per year for research grants to individual investigators or small groups of researchers. The funding is part of BP’s commitment to provide $500 million over ten years to support independent scientific [...]
The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in D.C. federal court by conservation groups. In deciding to proceed with Lease [...]
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announced the development and funding application for a 5MW CETO demonstration project off British Columbia, Canada. Carnegie, through its British Columbian based subsidiary Pacific Coastal Wave Energy Corporation (PCWE), has been developing the Ucluelet Wave Energy Project for over two years. Significantly, the Project is supported by the Province of British Columbia [...]
The Japanese whaling fleet set sail last week for the southern ocean around Antarctica to kill and process 1,000 whales for the purported purpose of “research”, something that they are allowed to do under the International Whaling Commission’s ban on whaling enacted in 1986 and to which Japan is a signatory. For several years the [...]
There has been much sensational reporting in the media regarding the vast amount of debris that was set adrift in the Pacific Ocean as a result of the devastating tsunami that struck the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan on March 11, 2011. If we are to believe the media reports there is anywhere from 5 to [...]
Six tiny green sea turtles that were hatched in a climate-controlled room at the University of Deleware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, will embark on the first leg of their journey back to the sea. Since ocean temperatures off the Delaware coast are now too cold for the newly hatched turtles, the turtles, along [...]
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a second set of regulatory violations last week arising from operations conducted in connection with the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The violations were issued as Incidents of Non-Compliance (INC). A total of five INCs were issued by faxed letter to [...]
A new U.S. federal policy was proposed on December 8th, 2011 that will help clarify which species or populations of species are eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act and will provide for earlier and more effective opportunities to conserve declining species. The public is invited to comment on the policy, proposed by the Interior Department’s [...]
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has been accepted into the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) as an Organizational Member. The Foundation is dedicated to ocean conservation through scientific research and membership of the Academy affirms that the Foundation conducts its underwater surveys in a manner consistent with the highest standards of scientific [...]
The European marine renewable energy sector is set to benefit from a new €9m EU-funded initiative to provide access to test facilities in specialist marine renewable energy centres across Europe. ‘MARINET’ (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network) offers periods of marine renewable energy testing at these centres at no cost to participants, through funding from the European Commission. The network [...]
Aquamarine Power Gets Green Light for 2.4MW Demonstration Project in Orkney
Ecotricity Enters Wave Energy Industry
Alstom and SSE Renewables Create Joint Venture to Co-Develop World’s Largest Wave Farm off the Coast of Scotland
Pelamis Wave Power Up for Sale
Major New Green Energy Fund Acquires Stake in Aquamarine Power
Eco Wave Power Company is Taking the Fast Track to Success
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