KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2010 It happened a long time ago in a state on the other side of the country, but the day Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University during an anti-war protest is still a fresh hurt for Laurel Krause. Her sister, 19-year-old freshman Allison Krause, [...]
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Allison’s Sister Recording Stories from Kent State
Posted in Allison Krause, Anti-war Protest, California, Civil Rights, First Amendment, Kent State Massacre, Kent State Truth Tribunal, National Guardsmen, Nevada, Oregon, San Francisco, Student Protest, Truth Tribunal, U.S., Vietnam War, tagged Allison Krause, Anti-war Protest, Apology, Arizona, Bloody Sunday Apology, California, Kent State, Kent State Shootings, Kent State Truth Tribunal, Laurel Krause, National Guard, National Guardsman, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, San Francisco, Student Protest, U.S., Vietnam War, Washington on July 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Harnessing Ocean Waves for Power
Posted in Dept. of Energy, DOE, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, Hawaii, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Nearshore Wave Energy, Ocean Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Scotland, U.S., United Kingdom, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Farm, tagged Aquamarine Power, DOE, Electricity Generation, Environmental Issues, Hawaii, OPT, Oregon, Orkney, Oyster, PowerBuoy, Reedsport, Renewable Energy, Scotland, U.K., U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
GAYATHRI VAIDYANATHAN, New York Times, March 2, 2010 Harnessing the ocean waves for emission-free power seems like a tidy concept, but the ocean is anything but tidy. Waves crash from multiple directions on a seemingly random basis, and converting the kinetic energy into electricity is a frontier of alternative energy research that requires grappling with [...]
GreenWave Pursuing Mendocino Wave Energy Project
Posted in California, FERC, Fishermen, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Mendocino, Northern California, Ocean Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Pacific Ocean, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged California, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, FISH, GreenWave, Hawaii, Mendocino, Mendocino Coast, Mendocino County, MOU, Northern California, OPT, Oregon, Reedsport, Renewable Energy, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Farm on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
FRANK HARTZELL, Mendocino Beacon, February 25, 2010 The Southern California investment company with a federal permit to develop wave energy in waters off Mendocino has entered into a partnership with one of the world’s top companies in the field. GreenWave Energy Solutions recently entered into a memo of understanding, or MOU, with Ocean Power Technologies [...]
OPT Building First US Wave Farm off Oregon Coast
Posted in Electricity Generation, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Ocean Energy, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Farm, tagged Electricity Generation, OPT, Oregon, PowerBuoy, Reedsport, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Farm on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PennWell Publishing, February 22, 2010 Construction has begun off Oregon’s coast on a commercial U.S. wave energy farm, which is being developed by Ocean Power Technologies and is planned to supply power to about 400 homes, according to national media reports. The system will be installed off the Oregon coast near Reedsport, and it will [...]
Pacific Northwest Waves are Getting Bigger
Posted in California, Coastal Conservancy, Coastal Erosion, Earthquake, Extreme Weather, News, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Ecology, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, Research, U.S., Washington, Waves, tagged California, Coastal Conservancy, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Flooding, Earthquake, Extreme Weather, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Peter Ruggiero, U.S., Washington, Waves on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
msnbc.com, January 27, 2010 Lots has been said about warming temperatures and rising sea levels, but a new study puts the spotlight on a more imminent threat to coastal communities: extreme waves that are growing taller in some parts of the world. Data from buoys off the Pacific Northwest coast found that since the mid-1970s [...]
Recent Earthquake Illustrates Force of Plate Movement
Posted in California, Earthquake, Eureka, Fort Bragg, Humboldt, Mendocino, News, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, U.S., tagged California, Earthquake, Geological Survey, Gorda Plate, Humboldt, Mendocino, Mendocino Fracture Zone, Oregon, Pacific Plate, Strike-slip, U.S. on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DAVID PERLMAN, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2010 The powerful earthquake that rocked the seabed off the Northern California coast near Eureka on Saturday underscores the complexity of seismic dangers within the Earth’s crust, and is likely to be followed by a large aftershock this week – but it is not expected to exceed the [...]
Quotas on the Way to Oregon Fisheries, Bolstering Stocks
Posted in Fishermen, News, NOAA, Ocean Fishery, Oregon, U.S., tagged Fishermen, Fishing Quotas, Groundfish Fishery, Newport, NOAA, Ocean Fishery, Oregon, PFMC, U.S. on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MATTHEW PREUSCH, Oregonian.com, August 1, 2009 Newport, Oregon – The fleet that fishes for black cod, perch and other groundfish off the Oregon coast is a shadow of what it once was. And so are the fish stocks that it harvests and hauls into processors like those anchoring the historic waterfront here in Newport. But [...]
Ocean Energy Moving Toward Commercialization
Posted in EPRI, Europe, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Ocean Thermal, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Sea Turbine, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, U.S., UK, Wave Energy, tagged BP, Chevron, EPRI, Europe, Lockheed Marting, Marine Renewables, Ocean Current, Ocean Energy, Ocean Thermal, OPT, Oregon, PG&E, Renewable Energy, River Hydrokinetics, Scottish Power, Shell, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, U.S., UK, Wave Energy on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PETER ASMUS, Pike Research, June 17, 2009 The earth is the water planet, so it should come as no great surprise that forms of water power have been one of the world’s most popular “renewable” energy sources. Yet the largest water power source of all – the ocean that covers three-quarters of earth – has [...]
OPT Leaving California for Oregon Wave Energy
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, DOI, Electricity Generation, Eureka, FERC, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, MMS, News, Northern California, Obama, Ocean Energy, OCS, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Renewable Energy, Oregon, President Obama, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged California, California Wave Energy, California Wave Energy Partners, Cape Mendocino, Dept. of the Interior, DOI, Electricity Generation, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, Humboldt, MMS, Ocean Power Technologies Inc., OCS, OCS Renewable Energy, OPT, Oregon, PG&E, President Obama, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, WaveConnect on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Excerpts from FRANK HARTZELL’s article in the Mendocino Beacon, June 4, 2009 Ocean Power Technologies’ subsidiary California Wave Energy Partners in it’s “wave energy project proposed off Cape Mendocino has surrendered its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) preliminary permit, making two major companies that have abandoned the area in the past two weeks. The moves [...]
Wave Energy Not Yet Ready for Prime Time
Posted in Alaska, California, Dept. of the Interior, DOI, Economic Issues, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, EPRI, FERC, Hawaii, Marine Energy, Mendocino, News, NOAA, Northern California, Ocean Energy, OCS, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy, Tidal Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Alaska, California, Dept. of the Interior, DOI, Edwin Feo, Electricity Generation, Energy East, Environmental Issues, EPRI, FERC, FERC Pilot Permit License, Finavera Renewables, Hawaii, Marine Energy, Maurice Hill, MMS, NOAA, Northern California, Ocean Energy, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, Palo Alto, Pilot Project Licensing Process, Renewable Energy, Roger Bedard, Socio-Economic Issues, Stanford University, Tidal Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, US Geological Survey, Washington, Wave Energy on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
COLIN SULLIVAN, The New York Times, April 14, 2009 Palo Alto — Technology for tapping ocean waves, tides and rivers for electricity is far from commercial viability and lagging well behind wind, solar and other fledgling power sectors, a panel of experts said last week during a forum here on climate change and marine ecosystems. [...]
Surprising Oregon Wave Energy FERC Permit Issued
Posted in Dept. of the Interior, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Improper Practices, Legal Issues, Marine Energy, MMS, News, Ocean Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Comm. Terry Thompson, Dept. of the Interior, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, FERC Review Team, FINE, Fishermen, Gardiner, Ground Zero, Lincoln County, MMS, MOU, Newport, North Spit, OPT, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Rob Bovett, Southern Oregon, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Farm on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SUSAN CHAMBERS, The World, February 3, 2009 Coos Bay — The announcement came as a surprise to everyone. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Thursday order issuing a preliminary permit for a 200- to 400-buoy wave energy project off of Newport shocked Ocean Power Technologies leaders as well as the public. “It’s a project, a site [...]
Lockheed, OPT Going for Wave Energy in the West
Posted in California, Electricity Generation, Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Marine Energy, Mendocino, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Northern California, Ocean Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Research, Socio-Economic Issues, Spain, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged California, Environmental Issues, Iberdrola, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, Mendocino Wave Energy, MendoCoastCurrent, Northern California, Ocean Power Technologies Inc., OPT, Oregon, PowerBuoy, Renewable Energy, Socio-Economic Issues, Spain, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Converter, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, January 31, 2009 On January 26, 2009, Lockheed Martin and Ocean Power Technologies agreed to work together to develop a commercial-scale wave energy project off the coasts of Oregon or California. OPT is providing their expertise in project and site development as they build the plant’s power take-off and control systems with their PowerBuoy [...]
Scaleback Urged for Coos Bay Wave Energy
Posted in FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Marine Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wave Farm, tagged Coos Bay, FERC, FERC Preliminary Permit, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, ODFW, OPT, Oregon, Renewable Energy, SOORC, Surfrider Foundation, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm on January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Susan Chambers, The World, January 26, 2009 Coos Bay, Oregon – Ocean Power Technologies is feeling pressure as local groups, the state and even the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urge the company to shrink its 200-buoy Coos Bay plan. Oregon Wave Energy Partners I, as Ocean Power Technologies, filed its notice of intent and preliminary [...]
Jon Wellinghoff, New FERC Chief Gives LNG Foes Hope
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, LNG, News, Obama, Oregon, U.S., US Energy Policy, tagged Bradwood LNG Project, Environmental Issues, FERC, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, Jon Wellinghoff, LNG, Obama, Oregon, President Obama, Suedeen Kelly, U.S., US Energy Policy on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CASSANDRA PROFITA, The Daily Astorian, January 26, 2009 In a move eagerly anticipated by liquefied natural gas opponents on the North Coast of Oregon, President Barack Obama has named Jon Wellinghoff acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. “The move, together with likely changes to the board’s makeup in the coming months and pending [...]
FERC Chief Resigning
Posted in California, Dept. of Energy, FERC, Fort Bragg, Green Recovery, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Mendocino, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, OCS, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged California, DOE, DOE Review Team Leads, FERC, FERC Restructuring, FERC Review Team, Fort Bragg, Humboldt, Joseph T. Kelliher, Mendocino, Mendocino Wave Energy, MendoCoastCurrent, Northern California, Obama, Oregon, President Obama, Rhode Island, San Luis Obispo, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Farm, Wind Energy, Wind Farms on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, January 7, 2009 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher today issued the following statement: Today I announce my intention to step down as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), effective January 20, 2009. Although my term as commissioner does not end until 2012, I will also immediately begin to recuse [...]
OPT Gaining Traction in Wave Energy Projects
Posted in Dept. of Energy, England, Funding, New Jersey, News, Oregon, U.S., UK, United Kingdom, US Energy Policy, Wales, Wave Energy, tagged DOE, EMEC, Hawaii, Iberdrola, New Jersey, Ocean Power Technologies Inc., OPT, Oregon, Spain, U.S., UK, US Navy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Hub on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, December 15, 2008 Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) recently reported quarterly financials and also recent developments: – Deployed and tested a PowerBuoy off the coast of Spain under the wave power contract with Iberdrola – Awarded $2.0 million from the US Department of Energy in support of OPT’s wave power project in Reedsport, Oregon – [...]
Concerns Emerge About Environmental Effects of Wave Energy
Posted in California, Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Oregon, Tidal Stream, U.S., US Energy Policy, Viewscape Issues, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Applied Physics Lab, California, EMF, Environmental Issues, FERC, Finavera, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Makah, Oregon, Oregon State University, OSU, PG&E, Puget Sound, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, U.S., University of Washington, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MICHELLE MA, Seattle Times, November 17, 2008 What started out as a mad dash to extract energy from the ocean’s waves and tides has slowed to a marathoner’s pace — complete with a few water breaks and sprained ankles along the way. In the past three years, more than 100 preliminary permits have been issued [...]
Feds Award Grant for National Wave Energy in Oregon
Posted in Dept. of Energy, Funding, Hawaii, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Oregon, Sea Turbine, Tidal Stream, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged DOE, EISA, Floating Test Berth, Funding, Hawaii, Lincoln County, Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, Oregon, Oregon State University, OSU, OWET, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, Tidal Turbines, U.S., University of Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Farm on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
TERRY DILLMAN, South Lincoln County News, September 23, 2008 Oregon’s emergence as a national leader in developing wave energy technology crested Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced grant support to establish the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) in Newport. The agency selected [...]
Recent Oregon Wave Energy Test Advances Research
Posted in California, Dept. of Energy, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Oregon, Research, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged California, Columbia Power Technologies, Funding, MendoCoastCurrent, Newport, Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, Oregon, Oregon State University, Oregon Wave Energy Trust, OSU, OWET, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Energy Trials on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, October 13, 2008 A new prototype of a wave energy device being developed by Oregon State University and Columbia Power Technologies was successfully tested last month in the ocean off Newport, Oregon, providing valuable data and moving the research program closer to commercialization. In a $1 million research effort during the past year, 18 [...]
Race to Turn Waves, Tides & Currents into Electricity is On
Posted in California, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, U.S., Wave Energy, Wind Energy, tagged Alaska, California, Chevron, DOE, EPRI, FERC, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Hawaii, MMS, Ocean Energy, Ocean Power Technologies Inc., OPT, OREC, Oregon, OSU, Peak Oil, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, Verdant Power, Washington, Wave Energy on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ISABEL ORDONEZ, Dow Jones News Service, October 6, 2008 Surfers aren’t the only ones itching to jump in the water and catch some big waves. Dozens of companies, from oil giant Chevron Corp. to smaller firms like Ocean Power Technologies Inc., have invested in or are evaluating the potential of technology designed to harness electrical [...]
Power From the Restless Sea Stirs the Imagination
Posted in California, Dept. of Energy, Environmental Issues, Fort Bragg, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, New York, News, Ocean Thermal, Oregon, Portugal, Sea Turbine, Tidal Stream, U.S., United Kingdom, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged California, DOE, East River Project, Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, Finavera, Fishermen, Fort Bragg, Funding, General Electric, Humboldt, Mendocino, Mendocino Wave Energy, Ocean Thermal, OPT, Oregon, Pelamis, PG&E, Portugal, Tidal Energy, Tidal Stream, U.S., Verdant, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
KATE GALBRAITH, The New York Times, September 23, 2008 For years, technological visionaries have painted a seductive vision of using ocean tides and waves to produce power. They foresee large installations off the coast and in tidal estuaries that could provide as much as 10% of the nation’s electricity. But the technical difficulties of making [...]
Fort Bragg Sues FERC Over Wave Energy
Posted in California, Environmental Issues, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Oregon, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged California, Coastal Zone Management Act, Environmental Issues, Federal Power Act, FERC, FERC Conditioned License, FISH, Fishermen, Fort Bragg, Lincoln County, Mendocino County, Mendocino Wave Energy, Oregon, PG&E, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger, Wave Farm on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, September 9, 2008 Fort Bragg, California City Council has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Concerns escalated last August when FERC denied Fort Bragg’s second request for a rehearing on FERC’s national licensing policies for wave energy or hydrokinetic energy projects. The [...]
Air Force Dives into Wave Energy
Posted in Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, News, Oregon, Tidal Stream, U.S., Wave Energy, tagged Aeronautics Dept., Cycloidal Propellers, Funding, Oregon, Oregon State University, Tidal Energy, Tidal Turbines, Turbines, U.S., US Air Force, Wave Energy on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
US Air Force Academy, Air Force Link, August 20, 2008 The next source of alternative energy could come from ocean waves, and Air Force Academy professors have been granted funding to dive into this research. The National Science Foundation has awarded the Academy’s Aeronautics Department $285,619 to support a cyclodial propeller wave energy converter research [...]
Rescued Sunken Wave Energy Buoy Calls for Better Infrastructure
Posted in Environmental Issues, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Research, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Environmental Issues, Finavera, FINE, Fishermen, Oregon, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TERRY DILLMAN, Newport News-Times, July 25, 2008 It sank to the bottom in 150 feet of water just one day before its planned retrieval. After nine months of waiting for the right weather and ocean conditions, divers and salvage vessels are currently on site to assist in the rebirth of a 75-foot, 40-ton wave energy [...]
FERC Denies Rehearing on Mendocino Wave Energy
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, Environmental Issues, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, MMS, News, OCS, Oregon, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, tagged Elizabeth Mitchell, Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC Conditioned License, FERC Denial, FISH, Fort Bragg, Lincoln County, Mendocino, Mendocino Wave Energy, MendoCoastCurrent, MMS, OCS, Oregon, Rulemaking, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Blogger on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
MendoCoastCurent, August 12, 2008 Last Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its latest denial for a rehearing on the Mendocino Wave Energy project on the Northern California coast. The denied Petitioners include Fishermen Interested in Safe Hydrokinetics (FISH) with Attorney Elizabeth Mitchell, Mendocino County, Fort Bragg, Lincoln County in Oregon and others representing [...]
US Wave Energy Having Temporary Setbacks
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, FERC, Fort Bragg, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Mendocino, MMS, News, OCS, Oregon, U.S., US Energy Policy, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged California, FERC, Finavera, Makah, MMS, OCS, OPT, Oregon, PG&E, Scotland, U.S., Washington, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Platts/McGraw-Hill, August 2008 Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) is looking to generate power from Scottish waters as well. Nasdaq-listed OPT reported July 28 that it had signed a berth agreement with the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. OPT can, under the berth agreement, deploy and operate its unit as well as hook up [...]
Pacific Coast Governors Embark on Ocean Action Plan
Posted in California, Dept. of the Interior, EPA, Issue, News, NOAA, Oregon, U.S., Washington, tagged California, Coastal Protection, Dept. of the Interior, EPA, Federal Working Group, Gregoire, Kulongoski, NOAA, Oregon, Schwarzenegger, Washington on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Environmental News Service, July 29, 2008 The governors of California, Oregon and Washington Tuesday announced the details of their plan to address ocean and coastal management issues such as polluted runoff, oil spills and marine garbage along the West Coast. The West Coast Governors’ Ocean Action Plan is the result of a 2006 agreement signed [...]
Huge Oregon Wind Farm Approved
Posted in News, Oregon, U.S., Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged Oregon, Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council, Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, Wind Energy, Wind Farms on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Portland Business Journal, July 28, 2008 The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council gave its approval of the site of a wind farm billed to be the largest in the world. The Shepherd’s Flat Wind Farm, which would span Gilliam and Morrow counties in north-central Oregon, is proposed to have 303 wind turbines with a peak [...]
Finavera Renewables Updates at Mid-2008
Posted in BC, British Columbia, California, Canada, Environmental Issues, Funding, Humboldt, Hydrokinetic Energy, Ireland, Issue, Mendocino Coast Current, News, Oregon, Patents, Research, U.S., Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, tagged British Columbia, California, Canada, Finavera, Funding, Humboldt, Ireland, Oregon, PG&E, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Farms on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MendoCoastCurrent, July 27, 2008 Finavera Renewables CEO Jason Bak provides this overview of 2008 activities to date and an outlook for the remainder of the year. “The first half of 2008 has been an exciting period for Finavera Renewables,” commented CEO Jason Bak. “Our strategy [in] wind projects is to develop an approximate one gigawatt [...]
OPT Claims Lead on Wave Energy Firms
Posted in FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC License, OPT, Oregon, Reedsport, SOORC, Wave Energy on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World, Worldwide Ocean Energy News, April 12, 2008 Sport and commercial fishermen, members from related marine industries and Ocean Power Technologies representative Steve Kopf met again Wednesday — and made tentative progress on rebuilding trust. A robust agenda that included discussing the difference between a traditional licensing process and an integrated licensing process — [...]
Wave Energy Company Cancels Plans for Facility
Posted in Australia, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Australia, FERC, FERC License, FERC Preliminary Permit Withdrawal, Florence Oregon, Oceanlinx, Oregon, Wave Energy on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The World, April 10, 2008 The proposed Florence, Oregon wave energy park is no more. At least, not on paper. “Energetech America, under Oceanlinx Limited, respectfully requests to withdraw its preliminary permit application for the Florence Oregon Ocean Wave Energy Project …,” the company said in a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on [...]
FERC Rejects Sonoma’s Wave Energy Permit
Posted in California, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Sonoma, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Moratorium, tagged FERC, FERC License, FERC Rejection, Lincoln County, Oregon, Sonoma, Sonoma Wave Energy Permit on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On April 7, 2008, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected the wave permit application of Sonoma County, California, and also the permit application of Lincoln County, Oregon, see attached letter relative to the Sonoma permit, below. SonomaRejection
Let Us Be Together in This
Posted in California, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, Wave Energy, tagged California, FERC, Fort Bragg, Mendocino, Mendocino Wave Energy, Moratorium, Oregon, Washington, Wave Energy on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an older FERC map showing detail of Oregon & Washington best.
Kulongoski Willing to Sue if LNG Ports Not Good for Oregon
Posted in FERC, Issue, LNG, News, Oregon, tagged FERC, LNG, LNG Terminal, Oregon on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
JEFF BARNARD, The Associated Press, April 7, 2008 EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski said Monday he is willing to go to court to make sure any liquefied natural gas facilities slated for Oregon are needed and safe. Kulongoski was reacting to a letter from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about state concerns over [...]
FERC, Oregon Sign MOU on Wave Energy
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC License, MOU, Oregon, Wave Energy, Wave Energy Pilot License on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News Release from FERC: March 27, 2008 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the state of Oregon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate procedures and schedules for review of wave energy projects in state waters off the coast of Oregon. This effort will be undertaken in an environmentally sensitive manner, while [...]
Trust Main Issue in Wave Energy Development
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, FERC, FERC License, Fishermen, OPT, Oregon, OSU, Reedsport, Umpqua, Wave Energy on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Chambers, The World Link, March 21, 2008 REEDSPORT — Fishermen and port officials talked of trust Wednesday night at the Port of Umpqua commission meeting. The meeting was an impromptu first battleground over what fishermen see as a violation of trust and wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies see as a business decision. OPT [...]
Oregon Marine Reserves, Wave Energy Debate Intensifies
Posted in FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, Fishermen, OPAC, Oregon, Wave Energy on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Chambers Staff Writer The World January 18, 2008 REEDSPORT — It’s all about balance in a growing debate about marine reserves and, to a lesser extent, wave energy. Chip Terhune, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s chief of staff, opened the Reedsport marine reserves and wave energy discussion with about 75 people Thursday night at the [...]
Wave Energy Worries Fishermen
Posted in Environmental Issues, FERC, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Economic Issues, Environmental Issues, FERC, Fishermen, OPT, Oregon, Whales on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Susan Chambers The World April 10, 2007 A wave breaks off the southern Oregon Coast as wind blows some of the surf backward. That wave attraction is attracting power producers. To date, seven projects are proposed for the Oregon Coast, to tether power-generating buoys to the ocean floor to ride ocean swells. World File Photo [...]
Surfrider Foundation Developing Policy on Wave Energy
Posted in News, Wave Energy, tagged Oregon, Surfrider Foundation, Wave Energy on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Three Tree Journal (tres_arboles), January 17, 2008 The Surfrider Foundation, a national ocean recreation advocacy organization is developing a policy position on wave energy projects and their potential effects on recreational uses. As a policy wonk, tres_arboles recognizes their need to avoid stridency on this issue, and approach it with critical, but supportive attention. [...]
Whale Routes Studied in Preparation for Wave Energy
Posted in Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Environmental Issues, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon, OSU, OWET, Wave Energy, Whale Migration, Whales on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LIBBY TUCKER, The Associated Press & the Ashland Daily Tidings, January 28, 2008 NEWPORT, Oregon — Eighty-two feet above the shore at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, biologist Joel Ortega spots a gray whale swimming three nautical miles offshore. A few seconds later, his team of observers, on hand with binoculars, a surveying instrument called a [...]
New Wave Energy Association Gets Funding, Sets Priorities
Posted in Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged Environmental Issues, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon, OSU, OWET on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Stoel Rives January 8, 2008 Portland, Oregon – The Oregon Wave Energy Trust, or OWET, has received the first part of its $4.2 million budget approved by the 2007 state legislature, and is moving ahead with plans and activities to make Oregon a global leader in this emerging industry. “We recognize there are a [...]
Wave Energy Goes Commercial
Posted in California, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, News, Oregon, Wave Energy, tagged California, Finavera, Humboldt, Oregon, PG&E, Wave Energy on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MARIANNE LAVELLE, U.S. News & World Report, December 18, 2007 The idea of harnessing energy from ocean waves to produce electricity for U.S. homes and businesses takes a giant leap forward today as the nation’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, announces the first commercial agreement to purchase power generated with this cutting-edge technology. PG&E [...]
Wave Energy Projects Present Permitting Challenges
Posted in Alaska, California, Environmental Issues, FERC, Fort Bragg, Hydrokinetic Energy, Issue, Mendocino, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tidal Stream, Washington, Wave Energy, tagged Alaska, California, Environmental Issues, FERC, Maine, MMS, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tidal Energy, Transmission Costs, Washington, Wave Energy on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Note: This is an older article from 2007 yet still very current in its coverage of environmental and permitting concerns related to Wave Energy and Tidal Energy projects. MICHAEL LUFKIN & LAURA FANDINO, Marten Law Group, July 11, 2007 The adoption of renewable energy portfolio standards promises to push forward investment in the development of [...]
