Environment News – Page 75
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NewsMaRINET2 to host offshore renewables training
Two new free-of-charge training courses will take place in November as part of the MaRINET2 project''s marine sector training programme.
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World’s most powerful offshore turbines
The 11 turbines recently unveiled at Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay include two 8.8 megawatt (MW) turbines standing 191 meters tall, which are the most powerful operating anywhere in the world.
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NewsRentel finishes installing North Sea turbines
Rentel has finished the installation of its last two wind turbines in the Belgian North Sea with the help of the marine engineering expert DEME.
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NewsBoat landing cutting transfer bottlenecks
The offshore wind industry’s largest floatel has cut an operational bottleneck with its new boat landing facility that is capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day.
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NewsPort prevents plastic pellet pollution
Teesport has become the first UK port to actively minimise the risk of plastic pellets leaking into the environment, as its operator PD Ports has signed up to the Operation Clean Sweep initiative.
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News‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign
The UK’s National Workboat Association is launching an ‘Understanding Fatigue’ campaign to combat crewmember fatigue on offshore energy support vessels.
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NewsRecord power for tidal stream turbine
Scotrenewables Tidal Power’s first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine has clocked up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland.
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NewsNew rotor blade access system
Wind turbine rotor blade access systems specialist, Gebr. Käufer GmbH Befahrtechnik has introduced its new K-BP-4 BAS system at WindEnergy Hamburg.
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NewsCanary Islands wave energy
Swedish renewable energy company Seabased has joined in a venture with the United Arab Emirates’ company Infocom Connect to develop a wave energy projects in the Canary Islands.
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NewsNavantia floating turbine progress
Major Spanish shipyard group Navantia has started the construction of the floating foundation for the first full scale floating wind turbine that will be installed at the Portuguese WindFloat Atlantic project.
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NewsC-Job partners with The Ocean Cleanup project
C-Job Naval Architects is proud to announce its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup a not-for-profit that is dedicated towards ridding the world’s oceans of plastic.
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NewsNWA launches Workboat Apprenticeship
The National Workboat Association-developed Workboat Crewmember Apprenticeship standard has been finalised with funding confirmed ready to help train the next generation of UK workboat crews.
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NewsReport predicts growing market for ocean energy
The European Commission has published a report on wave and tidal energy, which forecasts that global installed capacity ''could reach in the region of 3.9GW by 2030 - assuming current levels of political support.''
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NewsBelgian windfarm project merger gets go ahead
The European Commission has approved the merger project Seamade NV which is responsible for both the development of the Mermaid and Seastar offshore windfarms in Belgium.
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NewsRemote monitoring system for ocean cleaning
A new remote monitoring system is being put to the test as part of the first-ever ocean cleanup system which will eventually go to work on a large-scale cleaning project in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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NewsAlpha Offshore awarded blade repair contract
Alpha Offshore Service A/S has been awarded a contract with NoordzeeWind, a Joint Venture between utility company Nuon and Shell, for blade repair on the Offshore Windfarm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ).
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NewsIRENA report calls for international offshore wind standards
IRENA has published a report which, amongst other things, concludes that ''offshore wind energy stands on the cusp of rapid and widespread growth’ reports Andrew Williams.
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NewsNew partnership for oil spill response
Four Norwegian companies have formed a new partnership to provide an oil spill response service reports Dag Pike.
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NewsDrones will answer the big pollution questions
The answer to the rubbish in our oceans “is already in our hands”, Robert Garbett, CEO of Drone Major Group told Stevie Knight.
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NewsSea change for salvage operations
There’s been a shift, Adrian Scales of Brookes Bell, told ''MJ'': “The industry is now moving away from prescribed salvage methodology to a vessel-by-vessel approach,” one that takes into consideration the “evolving” nature of a project’s challenges.
