Environment News – Page 133
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NewsClean up your act at Seawork
First time Seawork exhibitor Industrial Apparatus Consultants (IAC) will be showing its range of oil spill prevention and clean up equipment to an environmentally conscious marine industry on Stand 327.
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Rapid refloats and pollution prevention
Last year saw a substantial increase in pollutants recovered by International Salvage Union (ISU) members. A total of 1.1m tons of oils, chemicals and other pollutants was recovered from 282 casualties. This is a near 95% increase on the tonnage recovered in 2006.
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NewsBest Buddy keeps clean canals
Essex Waterways Limited and Chelmer Canal Trust, the bodies responsible for maintaining and operating The Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation in the UK have delivered an innovative solution to the problem of visual pollution as part of it’ s continuing commitment to good environmental stewardship.
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NewsWave power follows in wake of wind
A new wave power station on the Isle of Lewis, one of the first in the world, moved a step closer last month as npower renewables submitted a planning application for the ground-breaking scheme.
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NewsBuoy reporters at Wave Hub site
The Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) has ordered eight Fugro Oceanor Seawatch Mini II buoys to form the core of an instrumentation network at the Wave Hub site off the South West of England.
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NewsFunding for Oscillating Water Column development
A partnership between Cornwall based wave energy developer Orecon; Peter Brotherhood Ltd, a leader in the design and manufacture of turbines; Converteam, the UK’ s largest supplier of electrical systems to the renewable market and Cranfield University, is to receive a £ 500,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board to ...
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NewsREDS dive into New Year with renewables
Rugby UK based Reach Engineering & Diving Services (REDS) has started off the New Year as they finished 2007, winning a contract for a diving project on N-Power' s Rhyl Flats Wind Farm, off the North Wales coast.
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NewsSeaGen successfully installed in Northern Ireland
Pioneering renewable energy developer Marine Current Turbines successfully completed the first installation phase of the 1.2MW SeaGen Tidal System into the fast flowing waters of Strangford Narrows of Northern Ireland last month. It is the world' s first commercial scale tidal energy turbine.
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NewsLunar lands largest tidal power deal
Further evidence that UK renewable energy developers are far ahead of their government comes with news that tidal power company Lunar Energy has signed an agreement with Korean Midland Power Co which will create a giant 300 turbine field in the Wando Hoenggan Water Way off the South Korean coast.
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NewsISU calls for new Lloyds Form
International Salvage Union (ISU) president Arnold Witte has called on all sectors of the shipping and insurance industries to approach the issue of salvage and spill prevention with ' fresh thinking and open minds' .
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NewsCrowley to run Alaska's 'Ocean Rangers'
The family and employee owned Crowley Maritime Corporation is to implement and administer the State of Alaska' s new Ocean Ranger programme.
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NewsGlobal Spill Response Joint Venture
Lamor Group Ltd and Swire Pacific Offshore Limited (SPO) have established a 50:50 joint venture to provide emergency oil spill response solutions for the oil and gas sector.
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NewsDutch Cable Lay Project Awarded to Van Oord
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract to lay a 150kV cable between Ellewoutsdijk and Terneuzen in its home country.
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NewsEMSA Oil Recovery Vessel Contracts Finalised
The European Marine Safety Agency (EMSA) has recently awarded contracts worth € 18.4m over three years that will see seven oil product tankers, three from the UK, two Spanish, one Maltese and one Greek, joining their fleet of oil recovery vessels to be made available at short notice in specific ...
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NewsHungry SludgeHammer Eats Marine Waste
The Liverpool based Bibby Line, which owns and operates ships, offshore units and floating accommodation barges, recently deployed a vessel of the latter type, ' Bibby Progress' , to Nigeria, where it was to house some 700 workers for a number of months.
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NewsSteady Progress on Thames Estuary Wind Farms
With no fewer than six offshore windfarm projects underway, the Thames Estuary is seeing a steady increase in activity as progress towards the construction phases gathers pace.
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NewsUK Consent for Walney Wind Farm
The UK Government’ s Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has given consent for a major 450MW offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea 14km from Walney Island, off the coast of Cumbria.
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NewsInvestment Boost for Wave Energy
Scottish wave energy company, AWS Ocean Energy, has secured new investments from Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V. (STV Fund), an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and the investment fund The Tudor BVI Global Portfolio L.P. (Tudor).
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The growth of marine renewable energy in all its forms means more work for ports, marine contractors and workboat operators.
The United Kingdom is a country worried by wild waves and troubled by truculent tides. The energy in our seas has always been vital to society, as a basis for the marine food chain, and an enabler of maritime trade and defence. However, only in recent years has there been ...
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NewsModular Oil Spill Recovery System
oil spill recovery technology, the Lamor Corporation AB, has built some 600 advancing recovery systems for vessels. The systems have been tailor made to fit each vessel and comprise several different components.
