Latest Environment News – Page 136
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NewsDevon Develops Emergendcy Marine Planning
There is a growing awareness of the economic and environmental pressures affecting the UK''s coastal zone and marine environment. Britain''s coastline stretches over 17,000 kilometres and is under threat like never before.
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Eye in the Sky for Oil Spill Control
The use of satellite imagery to manage oil spills at sea is set to improve due to the award of a 5m baseline services contract to the MARCOAST consortium by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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NewsVikoma Pollution Control and Recovery Kit for Kenya
Southampton UK based oil pollution control and recovery equipment manufacturer Vikoma International Ltd has signed a $500,000 contract to supply equipment and specialised oil spill response training to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), which will use it for offshore, harbour and coastal protection.
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Marine Pollution Prevention Campaign Conducted
The 22 maritime authorities of Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, which includes EU members plus Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Norway, and the Russian Federation, have conducted a concentrated inspection campaign focussing on how requirements for preventing marine pollution from ships (MARPOL73/78, Annex 1) have been implemented. The three ...
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NewsA Vertical Future for Marine Energy?
Progress continues on the prototype device being developed to harness wave energy from the movement of the sea (see MJ, October 2005).
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NewsDutch Consortium Wins Sohar Phase 3
A consortium of Interbeton, Six Construct, and Van Oord has been awarded the 195m contract for the construction of quay walls and dredging (Phase 3) at Sohar Port in Oman. The client is the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Government of Oman.
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NewsGet Plastered Safely at Seawork
If there were a Long Distance Exhibitor Award at Seawork, Miko Marine AS of Oslo would be in the running, but the company is no stranger to marine activities in the UK.
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NewsSimple Wave Generator Powers Forward
Essex UK based Trident Energy Ltd has taken a further major step towards the cost effective, flexible and uncomplicated production of energy from sea wave power, with its patented Direct Energy Conversion Method (DECM) successfully completing tests at the UK''s New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC) in Northumberland.
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Severn Tidal Proposals Gain Momentum
The Welsh Assembly is urging the British Government to consider building a £ 15bn concrete barrage which would stretch for 10 miles across the Severn Estuary and generate a power output equivalent to at least two nuclear power stations whilst lasting three times longer.
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NewsTimely Response Speeds Pollution Clean-up
One little known aspect of the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off Karachi port is that concern for the health of pollution control workers led to the cessation of beach clean-up operations.
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Big Year for ISU Oil Recovery
Members of the International Salvage Union recovered some 875,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 247 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening pollution.
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NewsBrits Lower the Boom in America
Two exhibitors at the recent Spill 06 event in London collaborated earlier this year when UK based Oil Limited took its newly developed RB400 rigid boom system across the Atlantic to be tested by Ohmsett, America''s National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in New Jersey.
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NewsConnection Regime for UK Marine Energy
The drive to increase Britain''s offshore wind energy has been given a significant boost as details were announced of how their connection to the electricity network onshore would be funded and operated.
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NewsFunding Flow for Shallow Water Tidal Stream Power Generator
BMT Renewables Ltd is part of a consortium that has been awarded a grant of £ 878,000 from the UK''s Department of Trade and Industry for a two year, £ 1.7m research, design and development project known as Pulse Stream 100.
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Lamor Wins EMSA Spill Response Contract
Finnish environmental protection specialist Lamor Corporation AB has been awarded an international tender by the EU funded European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for improving oil spill response readiness in the entire Baltic Sea. The three year stand-by response readiness contract is worth more than 4m and will result in Lamor ...
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NewsSuccess for First Sea Water Scrubber
The first sea water scrubber to be installed on board a commercial vessel is now operational on P& O Ferries'' Pride of Kent which sails on the Dover to Calais route.
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NewsSmall Isles, Big Resource as Alderney Explores Tidal Power
The States of Alderney, located eight miles from France, is not part of the UK or EU and has its own elected government which passes its own laws.
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Jobs Magic with Welsh Wave Dragon
KP Renewables plc (KPR) of London and Wave Dragon ApS of Copenhagen have entered into a joint development agreement which provides a framework for the two stage development, financing, construction and operation of up to 77MW of wave energy projects in Wales.
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Approval for Renewables Test Facility
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney has achieved a world first by gaining United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) accreditation for its unique testing facilities. These provide detailed and highly accurate data on the performance of devices developed to harness wave energy.
