DEVELOPERS are being urged to protect fishing grounds after the Government approved a wind farm off the East Yorkshire coast, reports the Hull Daily Mail. The wind farm, to the north of the Humber estuary, would be developed at Westermost Rough, five miles off Tunstall, near Withernsea. Developer Dong Energy will now press ahead with [...]
Grand Valley, in partnership with Michigan Sea Grant and the Michigan Energy Office, is hosting a public meeting on the benefits and challenges of offshore wind energy development, with a special focus on tourism. The early December meeting includes a video chat from people in the Netherlands who live and work near an offshore wind [...]
The study, ‘Meeting Europe’s Renewable Energy Targets in Harmony with Nature’, said that expanding renewable energy… (platts) Source: platts, November 23, 2011
An impact assessment will be conducted by Natural England (NE) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and the six month delay will allow them to address the previous site recommendations before they issue formal advice in July 2012. In September it was recommended that 127 coastal and offshore areas be designated as MCZs. Those [...]
HR Wallingford, the international hydraulic and environmental engineering consultancy, has formed a partnership with Loughborough University to develop a new underwater acoustic propagation and noise-impact model. Designed to work with proven HR Wallingford ecological models, the new model is an important first step in assessing the impact of underwater noise on fish and sea mammal [...]
Health Wales is highlighting the work of Welsh Crucible researchers – the cream of Welsh research talent. Dr Simon Neill explains his research into the impact of tidal energy and other sources of marine renewable energy ” ANYONE living by the sea will be familiar with the twice daily rise and fall of the tides. [...]
FoundOcean has been appointed as an exclusive agent by IEV International Limited (now a wholly-owned subsidiary of IEV Holdings Limited, a company listed on Catalist of the Singapore Exchange) to market their revolutionary Marine Growth Prevention and Control products in European waters. Until now, controlling marine growth has been an expensive and time-consuming process. This [...]
A team of scientists are sailing from Suffolk to the North Sea to find out more about harbour porpoises… (bbc) Source: bbc, November 08, 2011;
IBM and The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) are working together to understand and minimize the environmental impact of converting wave energy into electricity. This project, the first to use real-time streaming analytics for monitoring underwater noise generated by wave energy conversion devices, represents a significant step toward the ability to successfully and sustainably [...]
A wind farm in the North Sea has hardly any negative effects on fauna, a study recently published in Environment Research Letters reveals. (environmentalresearchweb) Source: environmentalresearchweb, October 20, 2011
