2325 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • Snake River Rehabilitation Scheme Begins

    21 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    The first step in what could be a major effort to improve water conditions in the Middle Snake River gets underway this week on a pair of small islands downstream from Walter’s Ferry. Idaho Power’s Bayha Island Research Project is one part of the broader Snake River Stewardship Program, which aims to help the company […]

  • UK: Construction of Wallasea Island Coastal Project Kicks Off

    18 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is to officially launch Europe’s most ambitious man-made coastal nature project that will guarantee a place for tens of thousands of migratory birds, and combat the threats from climate change and coastal flooding. Wallasea Island in the Thames Estuary will be transformed from levee-protected farmland into a thriving wetland, twice the size […]

  • SNP Pushes for Green Power

    14 November 2019

    Scottish National Party (SNP) has proposed a new Green Energy Deal for the renewable economy in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Scotland’s green energy schemes require certainty to attract investment. SNP’s ambition is to secure a Green Energy Deal that will: ensure green energy projects get the long-term certainty needed to support investment; […]

  • Congressman Harris to Tour USACE Projects at Smith Island

    3 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Congressman Andy Harris, Representing the First District of Maryland, will visit two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects around Smith Island on Saturday, April 7. The projects, currently underway, entail the construction of two jetties to improve navigation at Rhodes Point and dredging the Big Thorofare and Twitch Cove federal channels. These development programs, conducted in coordination […]

  • Scottish wave body invests in future R&D

    29 September 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland is looking to invest around £320,000 in four short projects that will help shape its future research and development programs.

  • Governor Cuomo Announces $151M for Staten Island Coastal Resiliency

    31 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Governor Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday announced a $151 million state investment to build a multi-use elevated promenade to improve the resilience of Staten Island’s east shore and enhance waterfront access for surrounding communities. The coastal resiliency project, a seven-mile long seawall stretching from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, will protect communities from severe coastal flooding, […]

  • $161.4 Million Announced for Terrebonne Basin Barrier Island System

    20 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards with Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority yesterday announced an award of $161.4 million from The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF) to fund Louisiana projects that support restoration of the Terrebonne Basin barrier island system: West Belle Headland, Timbalier Island and Trinity Island. “This is […]

  • MaRINET2 fixes first call date

    24 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The second EU-funded Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network (MaRINET2) project plans to launch the first call for applications next month.

  • Senator Concerned Over Rahway Arch Project (USA)

    5 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require that the proposed Rahway Arch Project go through a permit review under the Clean Water Act and ultimately reject the project during this process. New Jersey’s $15 million proposed Rahway Arch soil recycling project involves millions […]

  • Report: Highlands and Islands in Marine Potential Spotlight

    11 March 2019
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    The Highlands and Islands is said to have an enormous potential in developing the marine economy according to a new study. The ‘Maximising the Marine Economy in the Highlands and Islands’ (MAXiMAR) study focuses on supporting the growth of aquaculture, wave and tidal energy and marine biotechnology which are the most highly innovative sectors. Highlands […]

  • CNOOC drills duster offshore UK

    24 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited has drilled a dry well located West of Shetland. CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, confirmed to Offshore Energy Today on Thursday it had drilled and completed its Howick exploration well, 206/21-1, located West of Shetland. The well was safely plugged and abandoned with dry hole status, […]

  • WES: Call for novel wave energy converters

    11 June 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has issued a second competitive project call for the development of novel wave energy converters. According to WES, applicants will need to have already identified a concept and carried our preliminary feasibility work. WES will only seek to support truly novel devices which have not been developed and characterised before. However, […]

  • Top News of the Week, 16 – 23 July 2017

    23 July 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 16 to 23 July 2017.

  • Scotland: Inverlussa Secures Seven-Year Contract

    1 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Inverlussa, an island based company has sealed a multi million pound business deal creating five new jobs.  The latest expansion at Inverlussa Marine Services means the firm now employs 27 people and has almost doubled its workforce in a year, during one of the worst recessions on record. The Mull company’s latest deal secures a […]

  • Officials to Create 11.3 Acres of Wetlands (USA)

    5 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    The owners of Falls Creek Farm, a horse boarding and training facility and farm located in Sterling, Conn., have agreed to restore and create 11.3 acres of wetlands to settle claims by the United States that wetlands were illegally filled and altered during construction of a private golf course and other modifications to their property. […]

  • MCT to Share Its Plans for Brough Ness Tidal Project in Kirkwall, UK

    27 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Siemens’ Marine Current Turbines will be at Kirkwall Town Hall on Thursday (29th November, 3.00pm to 8.00pm) to share its outline plans for its Brough Ness tidal project. MCT is one of a number of tidal and wave energy developers who will be exhibiting at the event. The event, an opportunity for Orcadians to be […]

  • Western Isles Labour Candidate: WES Should Be Based in Lewis

    4 March 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Western Isles Labour candidate Alasdair Morrison has called for Wave Energy Scotland (WES) to be located in Lewis so that it does not become “another distant quango living off peripheral resources”. Mr Morrison said: “It is now clear to everyone that, in order to give credibility to its otherwise incredible energy policy, the Scottish Government encouraged […]

  • USACE Working on Smith Island Dredging Project

    22 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, in collaboration with Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Somerset County, has just released an environmental assessment (EA) for a navigation improvement project at Rhodes Point for a 15-day public comment. USACE proposes to realign a portion of the federal navigation channel in Sheep Pen Gut through hydraulic dredging; construct […]

  • RI CRMC Habitat Restoration Project Fund 2014-2015

    15 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (RI CRMC)) is currently seeking pre-proposals for habitat restoration project funding through its R.I. Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Program and Trust Fund. Proposed projects should seek to restore or enhance ecological conditions that have been degraded by human impacts in coastal or estuarine habitats such as coastal […]

  • NOAA: Developing Natural Infrastructure Projects for Louisiana

    23 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    About 40 percent of the coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States are in Louisiana, but hundreds of thousands of acres of vital habitat have been washed away by natural and man-made disasters, the NOAA Fisheries Service said in their latest announcement. Storms, erosion, and increased sea levels, combined with construction of hard levees, digging […]

  • Highlands and Islands, Scottish Enterprise Introduce New Decom Action Plan

    23 December 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Scottish Enterprise (SE) have launched a new decommissioning action plan. The plan aims to support Scotland’s oil and gas sector to take advantage of the estimated £17.6 billion forecast by Oil & Gas UK to be spent on decommissioning on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) between now and 2025. In […]

  • Lerwick Wraps Up Record-Breaking Cruise Season

    5 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    UK’s Lerwick Harbour has logged its best cruise season yet, with the Shetland port setting four new records in 2016 as the cruise season comes to an end. Scheduled to close on October 6, the cruise season’s final visitor this year will be the Cruise & Maritime Voyages-operated Marco Polo, which is en route from Dublin to […]

  • EU awards €9M for wave and tidal research in UK and Ireland

    24 July 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Queen’s University Belfast has secured over €9.3 million from the EU’s Interreg VA Programme to create a ‘virtual center of competence’ that will support cross-border research into wave and tidal energy in UK and Ireland.

  • USACE Awards Unity Island Contract

    8 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The USACE, Buffalo District, awarded a $1.39 million contract last week to Tidewater Inc, in support of the Unity Island Aquatic and Riparian Invasive Species Management and Habitat Restoration Project for the removal of aquatic invasive species (AIS) from Unity Island, Buffalo, NY. As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the Unity Island project […]

  • WDFW to Use Drone for Data Collection

    26 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Scientists with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will fly a drone over a section of the Lower Columbia River and adjacent areas during the week of Oct. 30–Nov. 2 to collect information supporting river restoration work. WDFW scientist Jane Atha said that a drone will collect imagery of a wetland project at […]