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- COASTAL DEFENCES/SMP
- MARINET takes Dredging threat to Parliament
- USA Video on coastal erosion and dredging
- Destruction of Norfolk's Golden Sand Beaches
- Billion Pound Sea Wall for Norfolk?
- Latest Newsletter on the Kelling to Lowestoft Shoreline Management Plan
- Thoughts on the latest Shoreline Management Plan
- The Dutch, DEFRA and the Dreaded Dredging
- The Threat to Norfolk and its Churches
- A New Threat From Coastal Erosion
- Double Dutch Dikes
- Cycling the North Sea
- Evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group
- Report of a meeting of the Solent Protection Society on 23rd September 2008
- Tyndall Forum : 'How do we create a Sustainable Coastline?'
- Abandoning the best of Norfolk to the Sea
- Mankind's faltering efforts to protect coastal idylls from raging waves
- Protecting RAMSAR sites from SMP induced Coastal Erosion — Information on the legal protection of RAMSAR sites if government abandons Norfolk Broads to marine inundation
- Correspondence between Mike King (resident of Scratby, Great Yarmouth) and Phil Woolas MP (Minister for the Environment) regarding the proposal by Natural England to allow a vast area of Norfolk to be flooded by the sea
- Waves of Destruction — Norfolk is the first low-lying area to face a stark and cruel new choice — plough millions into doomed defences, or abandon whole villages to the invading waters.
- Report on the November 2007 North Sea Surge — More Norfolk Coastline Loss
- Executive Summary of the Norfolk Green Party's comments under the public consultation procedures on Norfolk's Shoreline Management Plan
- Ongoing controversy over the SMP
- MARINET members' comments on the SMP situation on Norfolk's east coast
Letter from Mike King, (Gt. Yarmouth FOE) to the Eastern Daily Press
Letter from Pat Gowen (MARINET) to Gt Yarmouth Borough Council - DEFRA publishes coastal risk management proposals — 'Making Space for Water' — August 2006
- Official submission by MARINET in response to DEFRA's proposals — October 2006
- Submission by Pat Gowen in response to DEFRA's proposals — October 2006
- DEFRA Consultation on Coastal Erosion & Risk Management
- Papers on Coastal Protection
- Beach Recharge — is this policy destroying our beaches and wasting our money?
- Why Canute Failed- A Treatise on Sea Defences
- Shoreline Management Plans
- Our Disappearing Coastline — an original document on the NSAG website at http://members.aol.com/ruraleye/gowen4a.htm
- DIY Dune System — Build your own marram dunes
- Graph of Dune Loss at Winterton-on-Sea
- MARINE AGGREGATE DREDGING
- MARINET takes Dredging threat to Parliament
- USA Video on coastal erosion and dredging
- The Impact of Offshore Aggregate Dredging — MARINET's 25 minute video presentation on the damaging impact of offshore dredging
- Fathoming Sand Waves
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 1
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 2
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 3
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 4
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 5
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 6
- We provide here the MARINET response to CSIRO. Document 7
- MARINET's Comments on UK Licence Applications — A record of the comments submitted by MARINET to the UK government and the aggregate companies in connection with aggregate dredging licence applications.
- Eumarsand - A European approach to Marine Aggregate Dredging
- Tracking the Dredgers
- House of Commons Crown Estate Inquiry, input from MARINET
- Marine & Fisheries Agency (MFA) British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) Support
- Response to Outer Thames Potential Special Protection Area Consultation
- European Justice and Dredging
- Correspondence with Anne McIntosh
- MARINET presents evidence that offshore dredging will cause beach erosion
- Seabed Recovery following Dredging — no recovery after 3 years
- Letter From America: Dredging & Erosion — Comparisons of Mis-management
- Review of UK Marine Aggregate Extraction Activities 2000-2005
- Dredging, Defence, the Dutch and UK Dithering
- Crown Estate Socio-Economic Report on Marine Aggregate Dredging
- AREA 202/436 — Letter of objection sent by Pat Gowen — 22nd February 2006
- Reply from MES to Pat Gowen's submission above — 19th April 2006
- Email from Pat Gowen to MES as reply to the above letter from MES — 7th April 2006
- Reply from MES to the above letter from Pat Gowen — 3rd May 2006
- Letter of objection sent by Stephen Eades — 28th February 2006
- Response from MES to the above submission from Stephen Eades — 19th April 2006
- Response from H.R. Wallingford to the above submissions from Stephen Eades and Pat Gowen — 7th April 2006
- Letter of objection sent by Stephen Eades to Marine Ecological Surveys — 20th April 2006
- Response from MES to the above letter — 27th April 2006
- Letter to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister sent by Stephen Eades regarding all the correspondence to MES — 20th April 2006
- Response from the Dept. for Communities and Local Government (formally ODPM) to the above letter — dated 30th June 2006
- DCLG decision document to the licencee, Hanson Aggregates Marine Limited — dated 30th June 2006
- Letter sent to the DCLG (formally ODPM) concerning issues arising from the decision to re-new the licence for Area 202 — dated 7th August 2006
- Reply from DCLG to the above letter concerning licence renewal of Area 202 — dated 29th September 2006
- Letter sent to the DCLG (formally ODPM) in reply to the above letter — dated 10th October 2006
- Letter sent to the DCLG — dated 8th January 2007
- Reply from DCLG — dated 6th March 2007 — Only the last paragraph of this letter is relevant to Area 202 & 436
- Letter sent to the DCLG — dated 3rd April 2007
- Supplementary letter to DCLG — dated 10th April 2007
- Letter from MFA (formerly DCLG) which replies to the letters of 3rd and 10th April 2007 — dated 11th July 2007
- One of two letters sent to the MFA which reply to letter of 11th July 2007 from MFA — dated 28th August 2007
- One of two letters sent to the MFA which reply to letter of 11th July 2007 from MFA — dated 28th August 2007
- Letter from MARINET to D.Spooner, MFA requesting a reply to our letter of 28th August 2007 to the MFA — dated 30th October 2007
- Letter from the MFA which replies to our letters of 28th August and 30th October 2007 — dated 4th December 2007
- Letter from MARINET to the CEO, MFA which replies to the MFA's letter of 4th December 2007 — dated 16th December 2007
- Submission to MES from Stephen Eades — dated 22nd October 2008
- Submission to MES and response to questionnaire from Mike King — dated 20th October 2008
- AREAS 401 & 402 — Letters of objection sent by Pat Gowen — 5th & 25th March 2005
- Initial letter of objection on behalf of MARINET — 24th March 2006
- Response from consultants Emu Ltd, dated 29th July 2005. Copies of the Technical Notes referred to in this letter may be obtained by applying direct to the consultant, Emu Ltd, at the address given on their letterhead. If you experience difficulty, please contact MARINET.
- Second letter of objection sent in reply to the consultant's response above — 22nd August 2005
- Letter of objection sent by Mike King to the consultants Emu — 17th August 2005
- Letter of objection sent by Mike King to ODPM — 14th February 2006
- Letter of objection sent by Stephen Eades to ODPM — 18th February 2006
- Letter of objection sent by Pat Gowen to ODPM — 22nd February 2006
- Response from DCLG, 21st December 2006. concerning application for a Government View — Area 401/2 & marine mineral dredging regulations.
- Reply to above letter sent by Stephen Eades to DCLG — 8th January 2007.
- Reply from DCLG — 6th March 2007 — Appended to the above letter are the following two 'Temporary Government View Extensions on Licence 401/2'
- Temporary Government View Extension on Licence 401/2 — 31st March 2006
- Temporary Government View Extension on Licence 401/2 — 21st December 2006
- Letter from Stephen Eades to DCLG — 2nd April 2007
- DCLG Decision Document granting a new dredging licence for Area 401/2 — 11th April 2007
- Letter from Mike King (Yarmouth FOE) to DCLG — 12th June 2007, objecting to the continued offshore dredging in Area 401/2
- Letter from MFA (previously DCLG)to Mike King — 26th July 2007, in reply to the above letter
- Letter from MFA (formerly DCLG) — 3rd July 2007 which replies to our letter of 2nd April 2007
- Letter from Stephen Eades to MFA in reply to their letter dated 3rd July 2007 — 7th July 2007, in which we raise with the MFA issues of concern about the efficacy of the DCLG decision document of 11th April 2007
- Supplementary letter from Stephen Eades to MFA — 7th July 2007, concerning the DCLG decision document of 11th April 2007
- Letter from MFA — 26th July 2007 — which replies to a letter dated 7th July from Stephen Eades.
- Letter from MFA — 7th August 2007 — which replies to a letter dated 7th July from Stephen Eades.
- Letter from Stephen Eades to MFA — 28th August 2007 — which replies to the letters of 26th July and 7 August 2007 from the MFA
- Letter from MARINET to D. Spooner, MFA requesting reply to our letter of 28th August 2007 to the MFA — 30th October 2007
- Letter from the MFA which replies to our letters of 28th August and 30th October 2007 — 28th August 2007
- Letter from MARINET to the Chief Executive Officer, MFA which replies to the MFA's letter of 16th November 2007 — 16th December 2007
- AREA 430 — Metoc plc letter — 24th April 2006 — seeking MARINET's views on the Scoping Document for the Environmental Statement
- MARINET letter to Metoc — 24th May 2006
- Metoc plc letter — 9th January 2007 — in response to MARINET's views on the ES Scoping Document
- MARINET letter to Metoc — 20th January 2007
- Metoc plc letter — 14th March 2007 — replying to MARINET's queries about the Scoping Report for the ES
- MARINET letter to Metoc — 2nd April 2007
- AREA 455 & 459 — MARINET letter to WGA — 8th July 2010
- AREA 457 — MARINET letter to the applicant's consultant Environmental Resources Management (ERM) — 30th October July 2002
- MARINET letter to the applicant's consultant Environmental Resources Management (ERM) — 15th November 2002
- MARINET letter to the applicant's consultant Environmental Resources Management (ERM) — 22nd December 2002
- MARINET letter to ODPM — 5th November 2002
- Letter from ERM the applicant's consultant — 24th July 2003
- MARINET letter to ODPM in response to the enquiry by the ODPM as to whether MARINET has any comments on licence application by Westminster Gravels Ltd to extract 1.2 million tonnes of marine aggregate per annum from Area 457 — 1st March 2004
- Letter from MFA concerning Area 457 — 7th December 2007
- Letter from MFA to Westminster Gravels Ltd in respect of a draft decision document by the MFA on their licence application — 7th December 2007
- Draft decision document and Schedule of Conditions undated and recorded as "draft", issued by the MFA to Westminster Gravels Ltd in respect of Area 475 — undated
- Letter from MARINET to the Chief Executive Officer, MFA, in resect of the MFA's letter and their draft decision — 16th December 2007
- Decision letter granting a licence from MFA, accompanied by a Schedule of Conditions — 19th May 2008
- Letter from Stephen Eades to the MFA, challenging the granting of a licence to dredge area 457 — 7th June 2008
- AREAS 458 & 464 — Initial letter of objection on behalf of MARINET — 22nd July 2004
- Response from consultants UMA — 9th March 2005
- Second letter of objection sent in reply to consultant's response above — 24th September 2005
- EAST ANGLIAN REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT — Pat Gowen's report on the AODA presentation given at Great Yarmouth on the 26th September 2008 — 3rd October 2008
- Letter from Stephen Eades to AODA — 3rd October 2008
- Letter from Mike King to AODA — 6th October 2008
- Response to AODA Scoping Report from Stephen Eades — 4th January 2009
- Response to AODA Scoping Report from Mike King — 14th January 2009
- Response to AODA Scoping Report from Pat Gowen — 17th January 2009
- 2 further letters in response to AODA Scoping Report from Pat Gowen — 23rd & 25th January 2009
- Letter to AODA regarding Final Scoping Report — 14th February 2009
- Letter to MFA regarding Scoping Report — 14th February 2009
- Reply from AODA concerning Scoping report — 31st March 2009
- Letter from Emu Ltd announcing awarding of Phase 2 contract — 23rd June 2009
- Letter to AODA concerning Scoping report — 6th July 2009
- MAREA Terms of Reference
- Letter to Huw Irranca-Davies MP — 1st February 2010
- Reply from Huw Irranca-Davies MP — 2nd March 2010
- Letter from MARINET to the AODA — 16th April 2010
- Letter from MARINET to the BMAPA — 29th May 2010
- Letter from MARINET to AODA — 17th June 2010
- Reply from BMAPA — 25th June 2010
- Reply from Emu on behalf of AODA — 2nd July 2010
- Letter from MARINET to Emu Limited — 8th July 2010
- Letter from MARINET to BMAPA — 8th July 2010
- EAST ENGLISH CHANNEL : REGIONAL MONITORING PROGRAMME — Letter to East Channel Association from Stephen Eades — 4th September 2006
- Response from East Channel Association — 28th September 2006
- Further letter to East Channel Association from Stephen Eades — 31st October 2006
- Reply from the East Channel Association — 5th February 2007
- MARINET's questions to the East Channel Association's meeting of the East Channel Environmental Network — 7th July 2007
- MARINET has written to the ECA to advise how it believes that the ongoing 5 year monitoring programme of the new East Channel dredging licences can be improved — 31st July 2009
- AREA 472 - MARINET submission in respect of the marine aggregate licence application — 29th October 2007
- Decision letter of the Marine and Fisheries Agency — 8th May 2008
- AREAS 473, 474 & 475 - The location of these specific sites can be viewed on Map 1
- The location of all the proposed aggregate dredging sites in the Eastern English Channel can be viewed on Map 2
- AREA 202/436 — Letter of objection sent by Pat Gowen — 22nd February 2006
- East Coast dredging sites — Latest maps showing dredging sites off the east coast. Published by the Crown Estate and correct as at 31st Jan '08.
- Hallsands — hype and facts — When BBC first broadcast the superb 'Coast' programme, which did much to portray the value and wonders of our coastline, they included the story of Hallsands, that delightful Devon Village destroyed in 1917 by dredging. But subsequently ...
- The second 'Sandpit' report — A report from a large group of independent European scientists concerned with the impact of Offshore Aggregate Dredging
- Shifting Sands — The Royal Geographical Society has reported on the practice and impact of marine aggregate dredging in the March 2008 edition of its magazine, Geographical.
- Why are our Beaches eroding? — Coastal Zone '07 paper
- Aggregate dredging may be threatening Sizewell nuclear power station
- Severn Estuary Aggregate Working Group — Aggregate dredging companies are seeking new licences to extract sand from the Severn Estuary in the area known as the Welsh Grounds.
- MARINET Briefing Paper — An in-detail guide (25 pages with illustrations) as to the nature and impact of dredging the seabed offshore from our coasts for sand and gravel for use by the construction industry.
- MARINET Briefing Paper — An abbreviated guide (4 pages) which explains the main issues.
- MARINE MINERALS DREDGING REGULATIONS — This page provides access to the Government's Marine Minerals Guidance Notes 1 and 2 which govern the determination and granting of aggregate extraction licences. This page also records the public consultation on government proposals to place these licensing procedures on a statutory basis, along with MARINET's comments on this issue.
- 30th July 2006 — Stephen Eades' comments
- 4th August 2006 — Pat Gowen's comments
- 4th August 2006 — Pat Gowen's comments
- DCLG Summary of responses — www.communities.gov.uk/staging/index.asp?id=1504823
- 8th July 2007 — Letter from Stephen Eades to MFA (formerly DCLG) concerning the response by Government to MARINET's submission of 30th July 2006
- 16th July 2007 — Letter from MFA which replies to letter dated 8th July 2007
- 20th August 2007 — Letter from Stephen Eades to MFA which replies to letter from MFA of 16th July 2007
- 30th October 2007 — Letter from MARINET to D.Spooner, MFA reqesting a reply to our letter of 20th August 2007 to the MFA
- 30th October 2007 — Letter from MFA which replies to our letter of 20th August 2007 to the MFA
- 16th December 2007 — Letter from MARINET to MFA concerning the rights of non-statutory organisations to be informed by the MFA of licence applications received by the MFA
- 2nd January 2008 — Letter from MFA which replies to our letter of 16th December 2007. The MFA states that we will be advised of new licence applications.
- 21st January 2008 — Letter from MARINET to MFA seeking clarification as to whether we will be advised of ALL new licence applications
- 30th July 2006 — Stephen Eades' comments
- Dredging Statistics for 2005 — Details of the amounts of marine aggregate dredged offshore during 2005.
- Scientific studies from around the world — Information from around the world about marine aggregate dredging, featuring its background, history and impact.
- Press comments from around the world — Information from the world press.
- Coastal Erosion and Archaeological remains — The erosion of beaches and coasts, often due to aggregate dredging, can lead to the unearthing of significant archaeological remains, with examples from the UK.
- The Disappearing East Anglian Coast — The history, geology and meteorological events which have shaped the East Anglian coast and the likely impact of global warming.
- Meeting the Dredgers — An account of a public meeting in 2005 in Norfolk between the aggregate companies and opponents of aggregate dredging, with details of the evidence presented to that meeting.
- North Sea Surges — The Major Flood Risk to East Anglia
- Beach and Dune Erosion
- MARINE RESERVES
- Ocean Planet publication reviewing the serious challenges which our seas and oceans now face
- PISCO booklet "The Science of Marine Reserves"
- European Scientists' Consensus Statement on Marine Reserves
- Response to Outer Thames Potential Special Protection Area Consultation
- New Marine SACs and SPAs announced by Natural England and JNCC
- HPMRs and the Marine Act
- Coastal access plan 'a waste of cash'
- Scallop dredging in Cardigan Bay to be banned
- Troubled Waters — From The Big Issue in the North
- MARINET amendments to the UK Marine Bill at Report Stage in the House of Lords, April 2009
- MARINET Briefing to the UK Government and Parliament, dated February 2009, on the need for Highly Protected Marine Reserves to cover 30% of UK seas
- MARINET Briefing to the UK Government and Parliament, dated February 2009, on the Legal Powers possessed by to UK Parliament to create Highly Protected Marine Reserves in UK seas out to 200 nautical miles
- MARINET submits written evidence to Parliament's Joint Committee on the Draft Marine Bill
- MARINET says Draft Marine Bill needs to be fundamentally changed
- MARINET's Briefing for Members of Parliament on the changes required to the draft Marine Bill, April 2008.
- Tom Appleby, School of Law at The University of Bristol, has written an article published in the Journal of Water Law which examines the question of whether The Crown Estate, the owner of the seabed in Lyme Bay, Dorset, has a duty and a right in law to prevent the damage that has been caused to the rocky reefs in Lyme Bay and their marine biodiversity by scallop dredging.
- Marine Reserves in New Zealand The story of how the global Marine Reserves movement was born in New Zealand, its progress in that country in the protection of fisheries and biodiversity, and the current aspiration to set aside 30% of New Zealand's seas as marine reserves within the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone.
- An Illustrated Guide: An in-depth illustrated guide to the various types of marine animals to be found in British seas.
- A Layman's Guide: An explanation as to why we need marine reserves and how we establish them.
- The Eco-system Approach: A guide to the principles of the eco-system approach to marine management and how to select and manage marine reserves.
- References and Further Reading
- Ocean Planet publication reviewing the serious challenges which our seas and oceans now face
- ECOSYSTEM-BASED APPROACH TO MARINE MANAGEMENT
- Conference highlights the importance of Marine Spatial Planning
- The Ecosytem-based Approach : Its use in the selection and management of Marine Reserves
- A Definition of the nature and meaning of the Ecosystem-based Approach, and how this translates into a suite of management tools
- The Worldwatch Report, "Oceans in Peril"
- EU & UK MARINE LEGISLATION
- EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, 2008/56/EC
- We provide here the text of Council Regulation (EC) 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy
- MARINET submits written evidence to Parliament's Joint Committee on the Draft Marine Bill
- MARINET says Draft Marine Bill needs to be fundamentally changed — MARINET's Submission
- The EU has agreed the final text of the Marine Framework Directive which will determine the management of seas throughout the EU, including all seas under UK management and jurisdiction.
- A Marine Bill White Paper — We have submitted a detailed list of observations on the UK Government's White Paper proposals for a Marine Bill
- MARINET Briefing Paper — The Marine Bill: A sea change in action — developing the structure for the sustainable management of UK seas
- Marine Bill — MARINET's response to DEFRA's public consultation — from Stephen Eades
- Marine Bill — MARINET's response to DEFRA's public consultation — from Pat Gowen
- Plea to protect our 'dying seabeds'- Observer 26th March 2006
- Marine Bill Conference Report
- REFORM OF COMMON FISHERIES POLICY
- Defining the compliance of Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy with EU law
- The Decline in North Sea Fish stocks between 1880 and 2010
- Wild Atlantic salmon under severe threat
- MARINET's Report to Marine Scotland (Scottish Government) on whether fish farming is acceptable, or not
- Why The Boom Times Ended
- Ecological Meltdown in the Firth of Clyde
- MARINET's Briefing on its Common Fisheries Policy Reform Campaign
- The effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries
- MARINET makes submission to EU Fisheries Reform public consultation
- EU Green Paper on Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
- Role of the Common Fisheries Policy in implementing the Ecosystem Approach
- EU Council Regulation No. 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy
- Defining the compliance of Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy with EU law
- UK BATHING WATERS & CSOs
- EC to take the UK to Court over Waste Water Directive 91/271/EEC
- UK Bathing Waters — 2008 compliance (from last years analyses)
- MARINET member explains storm sewage problem at Whitburn- from Combined Sewer Overflows
- Continuing Sewage Pollution of Beaches — from the many Combined Sewage Outfalls that have not been updated since their installation in Victorian times.
- Press Release — British Bathing Waters — UK Government concealing serious health risks.
- A Response to DEFRA — Here is MARINET's response to DEFRA's 'Bathing Water Newsletter' detailing the implementation of the forthcoming revised 2006/7/EC Bathing Waters Directive.
- UK Infringement on Bathing Waters — The story of our work with the Urban Waste Water Directive
- Wastewater and Sewage Treatment — the reasoning, the methodology, terminology and results
- Blue Flags, Blue Flag look-alikes and Jolly Rogers — Just what do those blue flags mean?
- RADIATION
- Shortcomings in the "Stress Test" for UK nuclear power stations following Fukushima
- Why we should not risk irreversible damaging levels of radioactive contamination to our marine environment from the UK's proposed New Nuclear Reactors
- The nature and amount of radioactivity likely to be released into the marine environment via the cooling water from the new designs of nuclear power stations in the UK
- Are we evaluating the risk from failure of our nuclear power stations?
- RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM THE SEA
- Fuel from the seabed — Plans to burn coal deposits under the seabed
- Strangford Lough, The Cutting Edge of Tidal Power Technology — Film giving good pictures of the generator in situ in the Lough
- Severn Tidal Power Consultation — projects for shortlist
- Power from Tidal Currents — grossly undervalued
- Proposed Wash Barrage — Pros & cons of this controversial project
- Britain's first Tidal power farm — off Anglesey coast
- Could sea power solve the energy crisis? — Research being conducted at Southampton University into marine renewable energy technology believes that a system developed by the French inventor Georges Claude in the 1920s could provide all the electricity and hydrogen that we need globally, along with large amounts of desalinated water.
- Tidal News for MARINET — How will the Commission report? — The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) aims to report on its tidal power studies early in October 2007
- Tidal Power for the UK — the Severn Estuary debate
- Stuart Anderson's ECOSTAR concept written for the British Hydropower Association — Summary
- Stuart Anderson's ECOSTAR concept written for the British Hydropower Association — Full Article
- Details of Prof. Salter's claims on Pentland Firth Tidal Turbines
- North Wales Coastal Renewability Trust, Steering Group — ECOSTAR and Pilot OTI Project, 2007
- Stuart Anderson's ECOSTAR concept written for the British Hydropower Association — Summary
- Technological Advance in Generating Electricity from Tides — Significant developments announced in the technology for generating electricity from tides and tidal currents in the UK
- Climate Change and the Marine Environment Nov 06 — Report of the Coastal Futures conference
- Wave & Tidal Power in the Severn? "best prospect is tidal current turbines" — Barry & Vale FoE contribute to the debate
- Tidal Power Update in Cardiff. Renewable Energy Conference
- Wave & Tidal Technology Symposium. Organised in Bristol, 13th July 2006, by the Renewable Energy Association
- Wave Hub — test site for Cornwall. A test site for wave power devices is proposed off the north Cornish coast has met with some alarmist press comment.
- Norway's Statkraft optimistic on marine current turbines. Norwegian firm Statkraft says subaquatic sea tide-harnessing machines could in future provide 3% of the EU's electricity.
- Tidal Power for East Anglia? Tidal power from the Norfolk coast could be harnessed to generate huge amounts of electricity
- Pelamis — mechanical snake to extract megawatts from Waves
- World's First Testing centre for wave and tidal energy machines set up in the Orkney Islands
- Tidal Turbines. Sea change for tidal power — New underwater turbines could be cheap and eco-friendly
- US Installing Underwater Turbines. U.S. Cities Eye Ocean Waves for Power Supplies
- REGIONAL CAMPAIGNS
- ARCHIVE
- Newsletters from January 2005
- MARINET Newsletter No.38 August 2011
- MARINET Newsletter No.37 March 2011
- MARINET Newsletter No.36 November 2010
- MARINET Newsletter No.35 August 2010
- MARINET Newsletter No.34 July 2010
- MARINET Newsletter No.33 April 2010
- MARINET Newsletter No.32 January 2010
- MARINET Newsletter No.31 July 2009
- MARINET Newsletter No.30 May 2009
- MARINET Newsletter No.29 January 2009
- MARINET Newsletter No.28 August 2008
- MARINET Newsletter No.27 January 2008
- MARINET Newsletter No.26 August 2007
- MARINET Newsletter No.25 July 2007
- MARINET Newsletter No.24 January 2007
- MARINET Newsletter No.23 September 2006
- MARINET Newsletter No.22 June 2006
- MARINET Newsletter No.21 January 2006
- MARINET Newsletter No.20 September 2005
- MARINET Newsletter No.19 June 2005
- MARINET Newsletter No.18 January 2005
- MARINET Newsletter No.38 August 2011
- Latest News Articles from 2005
- Latest News Articles from 2006
- Latest News Articles from 2007
- Latest News Articles from 2008
- Good Beach Guide Details of the cleanliness of all bathing beaches around Britain for 2004
- Good Beach Guide Details of the cleanliness of all bathing beaches around Britain for 2006
- Good Beach Guide Details of the cleanliness of all bathing beaches around Britain for 2007
- Renewable Energy from the Sea — Items removed from the main Renewable Energy page
- Newsletters from January 2005
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