What a terrible start to the new year for the world’oceans – another shipwreck leaking fuel and toxic cargo,  oil and phosphate, into the water.  The Panamanian-badged MV Tycoon broke from its mooring on Sunday at Christmas Island, an Australian  External Territory located in the Indian Ocean on the rim of South East Asia.  Rough [...]
Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), today announced that the Victorian Ministry for Energy and Resources in Australia has awarded the company conditional funding support of $5 million under the Sustainable Energy Pilot Demonstration Program. The funding will be applied towards the $14 million pilot demonstration of the company’s 250kW bioWAVE ocean wave energy system [...]
According to Australia’s ABC news, eight years after it was abandoned due to cost overruns, the large scale tidal power plant in the Kimberley region is back on the agenda. The developer, Tidal Energy Australia, has reapplied for environmental approval for the project. The $400 million project would be the world’s third largest at a [...]
Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems, today announced that it has completed extensive tests of its full-scale O-DriveTM power conversion module, successfully delivering stable power to the grid over extended periods with a high level of efficiency. The O-DriveTM 250kW module is designed to plug into wave and tidal energy systems, such as the company’s bioWAVETM [...]
Australia’s channel 7 news helicopter caught dramatic footage of a waterspout off the country’s east coast earlier this month.Â
Wave Rider Energy is looking to harness the wave energy on the Eyre Peninsula’s West Coast with a $2.5 million pilot plant 800 metres off Lock Wells south of Elliston.
Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd, the company developing the latest green energy technology to exploit wave power, has appointed Brewin Dolphin as Financial Adviser. Brewin Dolphin will lead an initial funding round to enable the company to develop the unique Anaconda Wave Energy Converter (“Anaconda”) as it moves to commercialisation
For the first time, a science based blueprint for managing Australia’s oceans has been developed to safeguard marine life and protect economic and social interests as well.
TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch is a forum where issue experts, youth leaders, visual and performing artists, actors, musicians, politicians and many others will share observations on how plastic pollution affects ocean/environmental health and public health
Heavy steel processor and manufacturer RPG Australia – Techport shiplift steel supplier and platform builder and manufacturer of wind farm towers around Australia – has won the first and most important contract to build the large steel structure for the wave project pilot plant that will be built near Elliston on the Eyre Peninsula in Australia.
Forty-two percent of the world’s critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable coral species, as identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are found in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone.
James Cook University researchers in Australia are working on a project to determine how to balance the economically important industry of shark fishing while sustaining their populations.
Carnegie Wave Energy, a wave energy technology developer, has formally secured the vessel for the deployment of the commercial scale CETO 3 unit off the coast of Western Australia.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) was today welcomed as the first Australian not-for-profit into the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). This announcement reinforces the economic and environmental significance of the Great Barrier Reef on a global scale.
The GBRF was recognised for its plan to bring an innovative financing mechanism in the form of a bond, which subject to Government approval, has the potential to deliver a highly replicable funding solution for a range of environmental and social issues globally.
Shark attack survivors hailing from five countries are pushing the United Nations to adopt measures to protect sharks. The survivors-turned-advocates, brought together by the Pew Environment Group, are calling for countries to end the fishing of sharks threatened or near-threatened with extinction, stop the practice of finning and better manage fisheries to ensure long-term sustainability.
Wave energy is surging ahead as a viable source of renewable energy to generate electricity — with Australia’s southern margin identified by the World Energy Council as one of the world’s most promising sites for wave-energy generation.
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
UK Government Steps in to Assure Future of Cornwall Wave Hub Site
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