“best prospect is tidal current turbines” — Barry & Vale FoE contribute to the debate

Details of the amounts of marine aggregate dredged offshore during 2005.

Organised in Bristol, 13th July 2006, by the Renewable Energy Association

A test site for wave power devices is proposed off the north Cornish coast has met with some alarmist press comment.

Norwegian firm Statkraft says subaquatic sea tide-harnessing machines could in future provide 3% of the EU’s electricity.

We provide here a guide to the principles of the ecosystem approach to marine management, and how this approach develops criteria which may be iused in the selection and management of marine reserves.

A guide to the principles of the eco-system approach to marine management and how to select and manage marine reserves.

An explanation as to why we need marine reserves and how we establish them.

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.

Web sites Food and Agriculture Organisation of UN (FAO). Status of world fisheries and aquaculture 2002. Available at: www.fao.org/docrep/005/y7300e/y7300e00.htm MPA News. Available at http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution reports available at www.rcep.org.uk/index.htm Academic Articles Cox, C., and Hunt, J.H. (2005) Change in size and abundance of Caribbean spiny lobsters Panulirus argus in a marine […]

Tidal power from the Norfolk coast could be harnessed to generate huge amounts of electricity.

The following is an extract from ‘Living with Coastal Erosion’ — Eurosion Policy Recommendations — December 2003. To see the report in its entirety go to www.eurosion.org/reports-online/reports Example Of Coastal Cliff Erosion The municipality of Happisburgh is a located in the county of North Norfolk (UK). Sediments are removed from the cliffs under the action […]

The history, geology and meteorological events which have shaped the East Anglian coast and the likely impact of global warming.

Scott Douglas, eminent coastal engineer with the University of Alabama, leaves no doubt as to erosion brought about by dredging. Where this was carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it has dramatically harmed Alabama beaches and necessitated ongoing restoration projects costing the public about $28 million. He maintains that such practices caused […]

In addition to that we already have within Marine Dredging Briefing Paper and in the listing of scientific papers from around the world in the Marine Aggregate Dredging section, a new paper further evidences that we have long found, that much of the research on the damage resulting from offshore aggregate dredging (or, as these […]

CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science) Once BMAPA and their apologists claimed there was no long term impact on the seabed and its inhabitants from offshore aggregate dredging, stating that the seabed and the ecosystem dependant on it rapidly recovered from marine aggregate dredging. They are on record (on our MARINET video) for […]

A paper giving insight into the damage created by dredging, specifically the smothering settlement of suspended ‘wash off’ sediments over the seabed, impacting the animals and plants that live on and within it, can be read here. It stresses how animals with delicate feeding or breathing apparatus, e.g. bivalve shellfish, can be intolerant to increased […]

mechanical snake to extract megawatts from Waves

The story of our work with the Urban Waste Water Directive

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.