Register to clean up your local river in October’s country-wide clean-up of our rivers. Great River Rescue: The public is invited to help rescue the nation’s waterways during the month of October, by taking part in England’s first national clean-up focused on rivers. Plastic litter is a major issue blighting the nation’s waterways and the […]
Site in Orkney has produced hydrogen from electricity generated by tidal energy for the first time. In a world first for clean energy, researchers in Scotland have generated hydrogen using electricity from tidal arrays. The first ever ‘tidal hydrogen’ was generated at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney at the end of August […]
Bob Earll: Two articles below on the thinking for offshore mussel culture in the south coast of Devon and the changes on biodiversity. The issue is one of scale and there is a huge difference between a small scale operation and one the size of ‘Heathrow airport’. The scale of this development poses a number […]
Pity no EIA approach exists for fisheries – the ultimate disruptive business In Silicon Valley they call this the disruptive business model. Your change the world first, think Uber and Airbnb, then let the regulators play catch-up. The fishing industry have been doing this for years destroying the environment and species populations first and then […]
£28,220 penalty for release of non-native species The court heard how on 15 June 2015, 361 live American lobsters and 35 Dungeness crabs were released off Brighton on the Sussex coast by a party of over 100 Buddhists as part of a religious ceremony. The court was told how Zhixiong Li organised the party and […]
MMO Marine Planning Newsletter – September 2017 Updates on all the major plans underway and feedback from the other regions.
Twenty minute video interview with Unearthed – Greenpeace: David Attenborough: We aren’t voices crying in the wilderness anymore ‘We got mixed messages of hope and despair from Sir David Attenborough in our exclusive video interview this week, but one thing is clear: you just can’t get tired of that voice. We spoke about climate change […]
Resilience, one of the four themes of Ofwat’s 2019 price review, took centre stage at recent event in London, with senior figures from across the water sector gathering to discuss what ‘resilience in the round’ should look like in practice and how water companies can learn from the past experiences and best practices of other […]