The Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS have made a substantial oil discovery in the Havis Prospect of the Barents Sea. This is the second high-impact discovery in the North in nine months. But despite this major new discovery, Statoil Chief Executive Helge Lund has [...]
NOAA is seeking public comment on a draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the U.S. Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence. The document also examines measures to lessen potential effects. The draft EIS, released today, looks [...]
An international team of scientists who monitor the rapid changes in the Earth’s northern polar region say that the Arctic is entering a new state – one with warmer air and water temperatures, less summer sea ice and snow cover, and a changed ocean chemistry. This shift is also causing changes in the region’s life, [...]
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, [...]
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell is facing heavy criticism as a result of their handling of the biggest oil spill in British waters in a decade. Thirteen hundred barrels of oil have leaked so far from a pipeline connecting a well to the Gannet Alpha platform, situated about 122 miles east of the renewable energy hub [...]
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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