In a context of globalisation of trade, budget austerity and exhaustion of energy resources, maritime issues are returning to the foreground of economic and geostrategic concerns. Benefiting from the richness of its maritime space, France has a trump card to play, and the defence shipbuilding industry is at the heart of its reindustrialisation strategy. As […]
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The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has said while there are positive elements to the Coalition’s Great Barrier Reef policy announced today, it falls short of what’s needed to protect the Reef from rapid industrialisation and has urged the Coalition to go further. Felicity Wishart, the Great Barrier Reef campaign director for AMCS, said […]
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Federal government’s 10-year response time and refusal to consider potentially toxic munitions, fails to ease community concerns about pollutants and oil spill response. The Gitga’at First Nation says that the federal government announcement will pump fuel from a sunken American munitions ship inspires little confidence in the government’s ability to respond to oil spills and […]
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Opponents of the Marine Minerals Limited planned mining project on the north Cornish coastline expressed their worries about the impact of the project on the local ecosystem, BBC informs. The company has already submitted a plan to begin the process of collecting tin from the seabed from St Ives to Perranporth. According to BBC, Mr. […]
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Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) sent letters to President Obama to express their concerns regarding the Department of Interior’s (DOI) plan to begin seismic testing off the Atlantic coast. Seismic airgun testing brings the Atlantic coast closer to the risky practice of deepwater oil drilling, the same practice that led […]
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The delays in building electricity transfer links cause the risk for Scotland’s planned offshore tidal, wave and wind power plants, the renewable energy developers announce. According to the founder and director of Pelamis Wave Power, Richard Yemm, wave and tidal energy projects are reliant on the new links to deliver electricity from Orkney, Shetland and […]
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OSIL recently completed the installation of two data buoys along Lake Victoria in Kenya to help manage the local environment monitoring various environmental concerns including hyacinth menace and contamination of the lake water. In addition to monitoring atmospheric components of the lake, such as moisture, oxygen levels and temperature, the sensors on the data buoys […]
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A coalition of Pacific Civil Society organizations has called for a slow down in authorization of deep seabed mining in the Pacific Region. Procedures taken by numerous governments to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining exploration as a development opportunity caused concerns among organizations. The organizations say that Papua New Guinea has been providing […]
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In a move that has raised concerns in India, the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association (COMRA) has secured… Shivom Seth (mineweb) Source: mineweb, November 21, 2011
The Government is side-stepping concerns that the Chinese government could use a China Telecom-backed submarine cable linking New Zealand… (stuff) Source: Stuff, October 03 , 2011;
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