Environment News – Page 113
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NewsUK Energy White Paper boosts offshore wind
The British Government published its long awaited Electricity Market Reform White Paper on Tuesday, a document pledging to increase the target for offshore wind power from 13GW to 18GW by 2020.
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NewsNational Wind Farm Training Centre
The UK’s National Wind Farm Training Centre (NWFTC) announced its partnership With two colleges on the UK’s east and west coasts, Lowestoft and Barrow-in-Furness, at Offshore Wind 2011.
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NewsRamsgate breakwater for wind farm workboats
Breakwater pontoon specialist Marinetek UK Ltd is celebrating the completion of a £1m project providing a new floating breakwater and sheltered berthing facilities for wind farm offshore support vessels in Ramsgate Royal Harbour.
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NewsMake or break time for offshore wind
An industry wide survey into the offshore wind industry describes the coming few years as a ‘make or break’ time.
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NewsSafe transfers for people and goods
Voith Turbo Marine Engineering has developed the Voith Offshore Shuttle for wind farms with a special feature, the Momac Offshore Transport System installed at the bow.
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NewsSeaEnergy moves over to maintenance
SeaEnergy, faced with the steep bills for wind farm projects, is selling its renewables construction stake and is moving its focus to the maintenance side of the business.
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NewsDESMI sends boat to ‘Ro-Clean’ Angola
In the northern part of Angola, just south of the Congo River, a new terminal is rapidly being built and one of the popular DESMI Ro-Clean anti-pollution vessels will be stationed there in case emergency clean-ups are required.
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NewsOrkneys pulling in renewables support
The first company to establish a permanent shore-based facility at Orkney''s new marine renewables base has secured its first client, the European Marine Energy Centre.
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NewsSuccess for oil spill detection radar
Sweden’s Consilium Marine & Safety AB has established its Oil Spill Detection Radar firmly on the market following successful testing by the Norwegian Coastal Administration and the Norwegian Clean Seas Association For Operative Companies (NOFO).
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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.
