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Fisherman urges testing for marine life

A Minas Basin fisherman says that a half-million dollar program monitoring the impacts of tidal technology is worthless if can’t detect and measure fish mortality.

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Environmental monitoring program announced for tidal project

The Offshore Energy Research Association and the Nova Scotia Department of Energy are jointly funding $250,000 to support an enhanced environmental effects monitoring program at the FORCE site in the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro.

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Mooring Research Makes Waves with EcoSPRAY Tidal Platform

Dynamic Systems Analysis Ltd. (DSA) has led the launch of the EcoSPRAY, a marine structure designed to gather data to verify the behaviour of floating tidal energy platforms and their moorings in high-energy turbulent tidal flows.

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Allswater unveils tidal platform

The Halifax, Nova Scotia company said XTidal Instream Platform is designed for a single point mooring system for use with mono-directional turbines or a four point mooring system for use with bi-directional turbines.

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P.E.I. to consider solar, tidal energy

Update to provincial energy strategy will consider other forms of renewable energy to complement wind.

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