Environment News – Page 122
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NewsREDS on Renewables Seabeds
REDS Ltd (Reach Engineering & Diving Services Ltd) have this summer taken their first steps into the offshore renewable energy sector. In late June the Midlands UK based company were contracted to carry out works on the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm (BOWF) currently owned and operated by DONG Energy / ...
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NewsOffshore Renewables Boost Ports Industry
The 25 turbine Burbo Bank Offshore Windfarm was completed this summer on behalf of the Danish Company Dong Energy, culminating a hectic but successful installation period.
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NewsProgress on objections to offshore wind
A landmark agreement has been reached between the UK Government and industry which aims to remove aviation and radar barriers to the major expansion of wind energy that has been outlined by Business Secretary John Hutton.
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NewsDeeper water wind farms under development
The challenge of generating increasing amounts of clean and sustainable energy is leading energy producers to investigate building bigger offshore wind farms in deeper waters. A major technical challenge is installing the foundations for such structures.
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NewsThe tide turns for nuclear giant
French power group EDF is planning build three to six turbines along the northern coast of Brittany to produce electricity from the energy in tidal currents.
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NewsMore from Lamor with oil recovery barges
Finnish oil recovery specialist Lamor Corporation Ab has completed delivery of three multipurpose oil recovery barges to a customer in the Middle East. The company is experienced in boat building and ship repair since 1982 and combines this expertise with the manufacture and supply of modern and innovative oil recovery ...
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NewsISU Warns over new Bunker Spills Convention
International Salvage Union (ISU) president Arnold Witte has drawn attention to the incident at Newcastle NSW last year when the 225m bulk carrier ' Pasha Bulker' grounded on the Australian coast in extreme weather conditions.
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NewsReefs under threat
It seems that shipping activities are partly to blame for the endangered state of the world' s shallow coral reefs. Vessel anchors can drag for considerable distances, breaking up coral structures that took hundreds of years to build, and boat groundings cause devastation.
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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.
