Leading offshore wind developer, Mainstream Renewable Power, today announced its Board level membership of the Offshore Wind Development Coalition in the U.S. The company, which is already actively developing over 7,600MW of offshore wind projects in Europe, recently expressed an interest in developing a major wind farm as part of New Jersey’s offshore wind program. [...]
With a mission of exploring the potential impact of iron fertilization of the oceans to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Senior Scientist Ken Buesseler has helped lead the organization of an international consortium to plan, promote and undertake advanced research in that field.
The inaugural meeting of the World Delta Dialogues, an international forum bringing together coastal leaders and scientists from across the globe, will be held in New Orleans October 17-21 to focus on best practices and comprehensive strategies for creating sustainable deltas, using the endangered Mississippi River Delta as a model.
Australian Wave Energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX:CWE)is pleased to announce it has been granted a wave energy licence from the Government of New South Wales in Australia for a potential wave energy project site south of Sydney, off Eden, in New South Wales.
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) (“OPT” or the “Company”) announces that it has signed a groundbreaking Settlement Agreement (“SA”) with 11 federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project at Reedsport, Oregon
CTC Marine Projects (a member of Trico Marine Group) has commenced the load out of the 25 kilometre armoured power cable and its hub as part of the Wave Hub project, which will go offshore this month.
Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power announces that it has successfully raised an additional £6 million ($8.8 million U.S.) of funding. This follows the recent unveiling of the design of its Oyster 2 device which will be built in Scotland later this year. This new, next generation 800kW device will deliver 250 per cent more power [...]
A groundbreaking, two-year research project led by the DEP shows minimal environmental impact would occur at sites proposed for several wind energy projects off the coast of New Jersey, which is a national leader in an effort to develop offshore wind-to-energy power, Commissioner Bob Martin announced today. Designed by scientists from the DEP, U.S. Fish [...]
BP has announced significant progress in its half-billion dollar pledge to the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI). Three research institutions in the Gulf region will receive a total of $25 million in fast-track funding for high-priority studies of the distribution, composition and ecological interactions of oil and dispersant. On May 24 BP announced a [...]
Conservation efforts aimed at protecting endangered Caribbean corals may be overlooking regions where corals are best equipped to evolve in response to global warming and other climate challenges. That’s the take-home message of a paper published in this week’s issue of the journal Science by researchers Ann Budd of the University of Iowa and John [...]
Efforts to finally bring an end to the impasse between pro-whaling and anti-whaling countries in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be the focus of the IWC’s Annual Meeting, opening in Agadir, Morocco, on Monday, June 21. The “Save the Whales” campaign of the 1970s and 1980s mobilized governments and the public around the world [...]
 BP CEO Tony Hayward was on Capitol Hill yesterday, where he was testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on “The Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill.” Although it was quite a spectacle watching Hayward arrogantly dodge questions from lawmakers, the show was literally stolen by Rep. [...]
The first four months of 2010 witnessed a period of intense activity for the British marine energy company, Checkmate Seaenergy Limited, involving further tank tests of their wave energy converter, the Anaconda, at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. The series of tests were designed to assess the fatigue life of Anaconda when deployed. Checkmate Seaenergy was pleased [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input from the public on the research, development, and deployment of offshore wind demonstration projects.
President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to complete the membership of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: Frances G. Beinecke, Member, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Donald Boesch, Member, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are taking additional steps to enhance inspection measures designed to ensure that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico reaching America’s tables is safe to eat. The federal government, in conjunction with Gulf States’ regulatory agencies, is playing an active role [...]
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