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Kings County students deploy tidal drifters in Bay of Fundy
A tidal drifter bobbing around in the Bay of Fundy is changing the way Kings County Academy students think about the ocean – and science class. "It’s not science in a textbook; it’s science that’s floating off the coast of Yarmouth right now,” said Danielle LeBlanc, who teaches science and French at the Kentville-based school.
OERA receives funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program
The government of Canada has invested $1 million in a project which aims to address knowledge gaps and challenges associated with tidal energy in Canada. The overarching research objective of the project is to address critical issues common to different tidal energy conversion technologies, which is expected to reduce uncertainty and investment risk and lower the cost of tidal electricity in Canada.
Court backs Cape Sharp tidal installation
Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed the application filed by the local fishermen group to review the decision by Nova Scotia’s Environment Minister, Margaret Miller, to approve the installation of tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy.
Four Tidal Energy Research Projects Funded
The Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia (OERA) has recently funded four (4) tidal energy research projects under their Open Call Program. OERA awards a maximum of $20,000 on its various Open Call Projects, where such funds are leveraged with financial support from others to cover the total project costs. The following are the most recent winners:
"Measuring the acoustic detection range of large whales using an autonomous underwater (Slocum) ocean glider to improve an acoustic whale alert system for use by the offshore marine industry in Atlantic Canada"
"Finite Element Analysis to assess fish mortality from interactions with tidal turbine blades"
"Real-time particle acceleration/particle velocity (PA/PV) measurement system evaluation in a tidal environment"
"Wake Characterization of an operational tidal turbine"