The Maldives is a nation made up of 1,190 coral islands formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls, spread over 90,000 square kilometres of crystal clear Indian Ocean. It is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth as each atoll is made of a coral reef encircling a lagoon with deep channels dividing [...]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was a wake up call regarding offshore drilling practices and safety protocols for the United States, but for the entire world as well. Americans were surprised to learn that oil companies face much stricter standards when drilling in the North Sea than were required in the United States [...]
“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over in all facets of people’s lives from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe including Tuvalu, Peru, England, Uganda,Kenya, Belgium, Denmark , Germany and the [...]
A new analysis commissioned by the Pew Environment Group finds that the amount of eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna traded on the global market in 2010 exceeded the official quota by 141 percent. Two years earlier, the amount traded exceeded the quota by 31 percent. These figures do not account for “black market” bluefin missing from official [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of highly qualified and experienced Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. The study will [...]
France’s Protected Areas Agency and the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmostpheric Administration have signed a “sister sanctuary” agreement to support the protection of endangered humpback whales that migrate annually more than 3,000 miles between NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the Massachusetts coast and Agoa Marine Mammal Sanctuary in the Caribbean’s French Antilles. [...]
Key industry tidal energy experts are set to map out their plans to deliver large scale installation projects for tidal energy devices at the 5th Annual International Tidal Energy Summit and Awards this November. With demonstration tidal projects already producing energy in Europe, America and Asia and the first multi megawatt arrays in the pipeline [...]
The New Jersey Seafood Cooperative of Belford is the latest addition to the Fishing for Energy initiative, the program providing commercial fishermen a cost-free way to recycle old and unusable fishing gear. Gear, such as rope and fishing nets collected at the Co-op will be processed into clean, renewable energy at the Covanta Union Energy-from-Waste [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admiistration’s (NOAA) Teacher at Sea (TAS) program’s 2011 Field Season is underway. The TAS program is to give teachers a clearer insight into our ocean planet, a greater understanding of maritime work and studies, and to increase their level of environmental literacy by fostering an interdisciplinary research experience. The program [...]
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 [...]
Contracts have been awarded to the New England Aquarium and the College of Staten Island to collect migratory and habitat usage data on marine wildlife to help the evaluate sites for future wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Massachusetts. The contracts were awarded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center [...]
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenko and other national and state leaders today to recognize the pioneering Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP). This new, innovative ocean management plan improves state review processes and policies to facilitate the development of offshore projects [...]
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) and Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) announced today that they have entered into a long-term agreement for spill response services in the Gulf of Mexico. Two U.S.-flagged 370 class multi-purpose support vessels (MPSVs) owned by Hornbeck Offshore are being retained by MSRC and equipped with dedicated spill response capability. [...]
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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