More than a year after Prime Minister David Cameron publicly announced support for the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Center (PTEC), Great Britain’s Marine Management Organization (MMO) issued a license on April 20 to Royal HaskoningDHV to deploy and operate a proposed 30-MW tidal array at the center, located off the Isle of Wight.

British Columbia-based tidal developer, Yourbrook Energy Systems Ltd., is testing what it calls a prototype of a shallow water tidal-powered generator pump that could one day be used as part of a pumped storage hydroelectric project.
 

Update: On March 2, 2017, U.S. Senators confirmed Rick Perry as the new Secretary of Energy of the United States. The vote was 62-37 with nine democratic senators casting "yes" votes. 

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognise the opportunity," said former U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

This month marks the anniversaries of two notable events, decades apart yet related in terms of historical impact, awareness of vulnerability, and challenge to business as usual: the Arab oil embargo 40 years ago (Oct. 19-20, 1973) and Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast on Oct. 29 last year. Both events sparked a national and global focus on two concepts I’ve been hearing quite a bit about in recent months: adaptation and resilience.

Several U.S. Senators are resurrecting legislation seeking to create a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES), while more proposed RPS changes crop up in some quieter markets.

In the global competition for appealing clean energy solutions, a leading entry is the new West Village at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), which today celebrated significant progress toward its goal of becoming the largest planned “zero-net energy” community in the United States.

Holders of Ram Power Corp. (TSX:RPG, OTC:RAMPF) on November 26 (the “record date”) recieved valuable coupons as the result of the company’s rights offering, announced November 18th. Just in time for the holidays, these coupons, or “rights” can be used to buy additional shares of Ram Power for 8¢ Canadian per share any time before 5:00 p.m. on December 23rd. (Disclosure: I am long Ram Power stock.)

For those clamoring for (and against) the year-end-expiring legislation, and anyone in favor of some tax-code simplification, today the government has offered an early holiday present: proposed reform for some key areas including the production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC).

PensionDanmark A/S and other Danish pension investors backed a state fund to finance emission-reduction projects in developing countries as the Scandinavian nation seeks to export its climate know-how abroad.

Research reports and study findings related to hydropower from April 2014

Ohio is debating the sharpest break from a three-decade campaign by 29 U.S. states to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by promoting power from renewable sources.

The United Kingdom is known for its pioneering work in wave, tidal and ocean current energy. The U.S. and Canada have vast marine resources and would benefit from partnerships with UK companies in a number of ways, including building expertise, sharing lessons learned and fostering industry growth.

A first-of-its-kind study of net evaporation at a hydroelectric facility reveals that the project has very little effect on the loss of water to the atmosphere as compared with pre-impoundment conditions.

Humans are causing irreversible damage to the planet from burning fossil fuels, the biggest ever study of the available science concluded in a report designed to spur the fight against climate change.

California Governor Jerry Brown proposed spending $59 billion to fix crumbling roads and raising the state’s renewable energy mandate to 50 percent.

Rival parties to the conflict in South Sudan are putting military gains ahead of political settlement, a top U.N. official told the Security Council.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday a Sudanese member of its staff was killed by a stray bullet in the restive Darfur region.

On 1 December 2014 we are expecting legislation to come into force that will give effect to the new shared parental leave regime. The new regime will apply to employees in England, Scotland and Wales whose babies are due, or who will adopt a child, ...

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (“EAT”) has recently given an interesting ruling on  redundancy selection which could open the door to more claims from disabled employees. Background <...

By March 2016 new regulations will be in place that will require larger employers in the private and third sector to publish details of their gender pay gap ie the difference in pay between male and female employees. The new rules, which will come a...

Précis On the 4th July 2013 Eversheds reported on the Opinion of Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen (the “AG”) in the Case C-170/12 Pinckney. (Click here to view this article). Following ...

Précis An owner of a website may redirect users, via clickable links, to copyright protected works, without requiring the permission of the copyright holders if those works have been made available on a freely accessible basis on another web...

Précis: Threats to internet security are constantly in the news, but organisations of all sizes will know that there is a real cost to be borne when systems are hacked.  However, who should bear the cost? In the recent case of Frontier S...

A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision (The Mayor and Burgess of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Mr J Wooster) has found a local authority liable for unfair dismissal and age discrimination where it made insufficient effort to redeploy a...

Pension Managers Conference, Torquay, 24-25 November 2009 Further to several requests for details of the cases referred to in Gary Delderfield’s talk at the Conference, this special LGPS Speedbrief contains links to all the cases mentioned in ...

? Pension data loss leads to £250,000 fine Lax arrangements with a supplier being used to digitise pension scheme records for a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) administering authority  lea...

Economic and political uncertainty since the Brexit vote and fear of a predicted debt crisis have increased funding pressures on Higher Education Institutions when putting their estates strategies into action.  A perfect storm of a predicted dr...

It came to the attention of the Rwandan authorities that many investors who were granted mining concessions left them unexploited, thus wasting potential exploitations. The reasons behind this behaviour reside in the current legislation, which ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp by the coronavirus pandemic.

The man says he was "joking" when he promised a friend a job slot.

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Boko Haram: Brigadier General Idris Dambazzau (ret.), in this interview, reviews war against insurgency, saying expansion of manpower, overhauling of the Defence Ministry and robust intelligence community would make a difference.

The post Our troops are using Shagari era weapons to fight Boko Haram – Dambazzau appeared first on Vanguard News.

PESHAWAR: The workers of Jang/Geo Group continued protest on 56th consecutive day against the arrest of their Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman here on Saturday.Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their demands, the protesters urged the government to release Mir...

Libyan rebels have heavily attacked an airport in the capital Tripoli, killing six civilians and inflicting damage in and around the facility. Several civilians were also injured in the attack on Mitiga International Airport on Saturday, the country’s internationally-recognized government said. The Libyan Interior Ministry said at least 80 rockets were fired in the attack,...

Citizens who were stranded in South Africa have started going home, saying they were without jobs, have no food or medicine. ......

The body had informed Caf their concerns after the federation annulled the top tier on April 30 ......

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NETANYA, Israel, May 10, 2020/PRNewswire/ -- Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE: CEL) (TASE: CEL) (the 'Company') announced today that following the Company's previously announced potential debt offering in Israel, the Company is in preparations to raise up to NIS 200,000,000in debentures and options to purchase ordinary shares of the Company, and subject to the completion of the contemplated offering, the Company has accepted early commitments from institutional investors for the purchase of an aggregate of 222,000 units, each comprised of 1,000 debentures Series L and 10 options Series 4, for NIS 906per unit out of orders for approximately 560 thousand units received in the institutional tender. In...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday, gave an insight into his whereabouts in the past few weeks. Osinbajo, who spoke through his spokesperson, Akande Laolu, disclosed that he has been attending to official matters on how to improve Nigeria’s economy. Laolu urged Nigerians to ignore […]

Nigerian newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Sunday morning

Three young men suspected to be members of a criminal gang called ‘Shila Boys’ have been beaten to death in the Adamawa State capital, Yola. DAILY POST gathered on Sunday morning that the youths were killed by angry passers-by on Saturday night when they tried to snatch belongings of some women coming out of the […]

3 ‘Shilla Boys’ allegedly beaten to death in Adamawa

Details have just been published of the annual uprating of compensation limits for tribunal claims and other amounts payable under employment legislation. The new amounts will apply where the relevant event occurs on or after 1 February 2009. For un...

As a follow-up to our previous employer survey on proposals to reform the employment tribunal system, in January 2012 we conducted a second survey seeking views on the introduction of tribunal fees, on the Government’s decision to al...

According to ONS statistics published this summer, 248,800 working days were lost in the UK in 2012 – significantly lower than the 2011 total (1,389,700). The change is largely attributable to the small number of large scale public sector stri...

The Supreme Court yesterday refused British Gas permission to appeal in the holiday pay case of Lock: the Working Time Regulations are properly to be read purposively to give effect to the CJEU ruling in Lock. Crucially, we now know that repres...

Recent years have seen an outburst of interest in artificial intelligence. Technologies based on AI have attracted investors all over the world on an unprecedented scale. More and more smart services are becoming a reality. For example, Staples is u...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that workers who go on sick leave during a period that has been scheduled as annual leave for the purposes of the Working Time Directive should be allowed to reschedule their holidays, even if that means...

Today, the EAT has handed down its decision in the case of Lyons v Mitie Security Limited, which involved a claim for holiday pay from an employee whose request to take annual leave did not comply with notice requireme...

The ICO has announced its first use of its recent power to issue fines or monetary penalties for serious breaches of the data protection legislation. The power became effective in April 2010 (see Full Article