Environment News – Page 124
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NewsSpill joint venture for China regulations
US based marine salvage specialists, RESOLVE Marine Group and Shanghai based Shanghai Shengmin Shipping Service Co, Ltd have joined forces.
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NewsSeafood to wind farms for Tidal Transit
A new offshore wind farm support operation based in Norfolk UK has an interesting history, with its origins in fishing and restaurants.
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NewsUK government commits to fourth carbon budget
In a decision that will be of relevance to the marine renewable industry, the UK government has broadly accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for the fourth carbon budget.
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NewsFloating Wind Turbines – New Developments in a Buoyant Market
In recent years there have been two significant trends in the wind industry - developers are searching for higher quality wind resources and turbines are getting larger and larger.
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NewsFloating hotel for offshore wind farm
The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has arrived back at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site from Holland after picking up a further supply of monopoles to resume foundation installations.
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NewsThe coast is clear with SWORC
The newly established Danish company SWORC A/S has signed with Tuco ApS, to begin construction of the first of its special-purpose shallow water oil recovery vessels, aptly dubbed SWORC (Shallow Water Oil Recovery Catamaran).
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NewsSheerness wind turbine manufacturing base
Following Siemens’ decision to manufacture offshore wind turbines at the UK port of Hull, further evidence of the industry’s desire to establish manufacturing facilities in the UK has arrived.
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NewsUK Government backs MCT for EU funding
An application from the UK''s Marine Current Turbines to secure money from the European Union’s New Entrant Reserve (NER) scheme has been approved by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change.
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NewsTaking the sting out of wind assessment
A new device aims to reduce the major challenge inherent in offshore wind resource assessment, the gathering and validating of data.
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NewsPyroBoom shines in Gulf spill response
The Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico brought to light many new, innovative spill response techniques that were previously unheard of or not frequently used in common day spill response.
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NewsClean energy for Korea
A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.
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NewsISU Pollution Prevention Survey results
The International Salvage Union (ISU) has announced the results of its annual Pollution Prevention Survey for 2010, which show a significant decrease in the tonnages of pollutants salved by ISU members in 2010.
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NewsMPI Adventure arrives in the UK
The construction of offshore wind farms in European waters has received a significant boost with the arrival at the UK port of Harwich on Monday of the first of two dedicated wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).
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NewsFavourable winds blow into Grimsby
Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its wind farms.
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NewsMARIN moves closer to DeepCWind
The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.
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NewsDeal delivers offshore renewables vessel
Aberdeen UK based SeaHold GeoShips Limited (GeoShips) has chartered its first new multi-purpose offshore vessel to support the growing offshore renewable energy market and the subsea sector.
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NewsNorthern Ireland prepares for renewables
Two major bodies have published a design discussion document for the development of offshore renewable energy projects in Northern Ireland waters.
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NewsOperators respond to wind farm demand
With details now emerging of around 20 firm orders and options for wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) worldwide, it is possible to gain a picture of how those involved are responding to the demand for this relatively new type of vessel.
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NewsSpotlight on power sees All-Energy shine
All-Energy, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, has just got even larger.
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NewsScottish plans for wind energy
Plans for developing Scotland’s offshore wind potential have been unveiled with publication of Blue Seas – Green Energy, the Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish Territorial Waters.
