The Northwest is home to powerful tides. In Puget Sound, water rushes in and out of the Strait of Juan de Fuca at speeds of almost 10 miles… By Ashley Ahearn (opb) [mappress] Source: opb, May 25, 2011
Like a constant, maddening ringing in the ears, human-generated persistent sounds may stress and harm fish, according to a … (msnbc) [mappress] Source: msnbc, May 17, 2011;
A RESEARCH project has been launched to ensure that dolphins are not harmed by marine energy developments in Scottish waters. By John Ross (scotsman) [mappress] Source: scotsman, April 21, 2011;
A three-year feasibility study for a wave farm off San Onofre is approved, but locals are up in arms about trading green energy… By Paul M. J. Suchecki (manhattanbeach) [mappress] Source: manhattanbeach, April 15, 2011;
Britain’s most special ‘seascapes’ should be given the same kind of protection as beautiful areas on land to stop them being blighted… By Louise Gray (telegraph) [mappress] Source: telegraph, April 15, 2011;
The key to successful offshore wind development in the Great Lakes will be balance: finding middle ground between blanket opposition and… By Jeremy Moule (rochestercitynewspaper) [mappress] Source: rochestercitynewspaper, April 15, 2011;
WALES’ burgeoning wind farms could be producing far less energy than supporters claim, a new report has suggested. By Graham Henry (walesonline) [mappress] Source: walesonline, April 12, 2011
Researchers are warning that relying too heavily on wind and wave power as “renewable” energy sources to replace fossil fuels could be a… (earthweek) [mappress] Source: earthweek, April 08, 2011
A Cape May County company took another step Wednesday toward building the nation’s first offshore wind farm off Atlantic City. By Michael Miller (pressofatlanticcity) [mappress] Source: pressofatlanticcity, April 07, 2011
The future of the wind industry off Massachusetts may take shape inside a crookedly-drawn area of ocean about 14 miles south of Martha’s… By Jay Lindsay (beaumontenterprise) [mappress] Source: beaumontenterprise, April 05, 2011
A feathered stakeholder showed up at a presentation about offshore wind turbines in which one of the concerns addressed was–how do the… By Brandie Jefferson (ellicottcity) [mappress] Source: ellicottcity, March 30, 2011
The struggling monarch butterfly faces potential disaster if the Ontario government’s moratorium on offshore wind turbines is ever lifted … By Daniel Pearce (dunnvillechronicle) [mappress] Source: dunnvillechronicle, March 28, 2011
Lost in the excitement of last week’s EWEA 2011 Annual Event in Brussels was a press release from the American Bird Conservancy noting that at least 500 million birds are killed in the US each year by cats. A comparison of that figure to the 440,000 birds reportedly killed annually in the US by coll
Soundwaves from underwater military sonar are far more distressing for whales than was previously thought and drives some terrified… By David Derbyshire (dailymail) [mappress] Source: dailymail, March 15, 2011
