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.
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.
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.
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.
