Latest Environment News – Page 137
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NewsFirst Wave Hub Participants Chosen
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) named three companies this month which it has chosen as development partners for the proposed £ 15m Wave Hub project from 2007.
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NewsTidal Energy Turbine for Northern Ireland
Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has been granted consent by the Environment & Heritage Service in Northern Ireland to install its next generation tidal energy device, the 1,000kW SeaGen tidal energy turbine, in Northern Ireland''s Strangford Lough. MCT is also investigating the feasibility of building a 12 ...
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News'V' Boom's Victorious Pollution Trial
Cornwall County Council''s Emergency Planning staff were called into action last month to respond, for exercise purposes, to a major oil pollution incident. A full emergency team was assembled in the incident centre in Falmouth docks and specialist companies Triskel Marine Ltd (TML) and Transas were drafted in to advise ...
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NewsPollution Punished in Port of Southampton
Southampton UK magistrates recently upheld a summons issued by Associated British Ports (ABP) against the owners of MV Autofreighter, who admitted polluting the waters of the harbour earlier this year.
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NewsUK Pollution Response Contract Award
Specialist incident response company DV Howells Ltd hasbeen awarded a major contract to store the equipment and run the teams that would be drafted in by the UK government in the event of a serious pollution incident at sea. The firm, which was awarded the contract by the Maritime and ...
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NewsRapid Response Rescues Turkish Reservoir
Finland based oil spill response equipment manufacturer the Lamor Corporation understands that effective rapid response can mitigate against environmental damage and reduce clean-up costs dramatically. With that in mind, Lamor has been steadily building inventory at their production facility, thus enhancing their efforts to establish other Environmental Action Centres (EAC) ...
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NewsSpecialised Pump Deployed in 'Prestige' Oil Recovery
After the Prestige sank off Spain in November 2002, contaminating several hundred miles of coastline, it settled in 3,838m of water and continued to leak oil. Cracks in the hull were initially sealed by a submarine to prevent further contamination but a large quantity of heavy viscosity oil remained inside.
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Compensation Boost
Increased levels of compensation will be available for victims of oil pollution from oil tanker accidents as a result of the 2003 Protocol adopted by a diplomatic conference at IMO headquarters in London and establishing an International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund which came into existence on the third ...
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NewsPositive Spin for Circular Skimmer
Denmark based oil pollution response equipment specialists Ro-Clean Desmi have fared well at recent skimmer tests formulated by the US Coast Guard and carried out at the OHMSETT national testing facility in New Jersey.
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NewsISU Call for 'Casualty Management Guidelines'
Western Europe has been the focus of regulatory developments in recent years concerning accidental pollution from ships. The total losses of the Erika and, subsequently, the Prestige have done much to harden attitudes in the wake of catastrophic pollution.
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Mott MacDonald to Provide Design Services for Wind Farm
Mott MacDonald has been appointed as a sub-consultant by AREVA T&D Systems inStafford in the UK to provide electrical design services for an offshore wind farm to be built 7km off the coast of Walney Island in Cumbria.
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EU Bill to Cut Ship-Borne Air Pollution Will Push Up Costs
European Union members have given the go-ahead for a bill aimed at cutting air pollution caused by ships, a move that would help fight respiratory disease but push up costs for ship owners.
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NewsOrders for French Fast Oil Recovery System are Taking Off
By the end of this year, four ships equipped with the JLMD fast oil recovery system will be sailing the seas. The first, a tanker belonging to Italian shipowner Navigazione Montanari , was launched and christened on 15 September.
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NewsDockyard Contamination Investigation Gets Underway
Fugro Engineering Services of Basingstoke UK is conducting a series of contamination surveys for Serco Assurance at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife.
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News'Royal Oak' Oil Removal Continues
A major operation to remove oil from the wreck of HMS Royal Oak continues this summer. The warship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939 while lying at anchor off Scapa Flow.
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UK Government 'Complacent' on Oil Spill Planning
The UK''s 10,000 mile-long coastline is under threat from oil spills due to outdated local authority contingency plans, according to a paper released last month by the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC).
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NewsTyne River Clean-Up Project
An ambitious scheme to clean up the River Tyne has been given approval. The River Clean-Up Project , led by the Port of tyne and managed by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council , has received £ 272,000 from SITA Environmental Trust and £ 20,000 from the UK Environment Agency to add ...
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NewsNorway and France Embrace Pollution Prevention
Rapidly increasing tanker traffic along the coast of Norway, especially in the far north, has raised fears of extensive pollution in the event of a tanker grounding. An important role of the new UT512 design for the Norwegian Coastguard will therefore be towing and pollution prevention.
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Flanders Moves Waste to Water
The European Commission hasapproved a Belgium Flemish scheme to subsidise domestic waste transport through inland waterways to the tune of 7.4m. The project will offset the additional costs of transporting domestic waste by inland waterway rather than road.
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Newsseawork Exhibitor's Booms Don't Bust
Following an EU Tender, seawork2004 exhibitor Vikoma International has won an order to supply 600m of Hd Boom on reels to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ''s anti-pollution stockpile. The Southampton based firm''s oil containment booms have earned a worldwide reputation for effectiveness and durability, and their latest Hd Boom ...
