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Stillaguamish to benefit from salmon grants

12/22/2015

Standwood Camano News-

Snohomish County will receive several salmon recovery grants, two of which will benefit the Stillaguamish River.

The county Department of Public Works will use $55,125 to monitor Chinook salmon habitat in side channels of the Stillaguamish River with funds from the Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration fund.

Nova Scotia puts ocean-based renewable energy on the agenda

12/22/2015

WWF(Canada)-

Last week, the Government of Nova Scotia passed the Marine Renewable Energy Act, in an effort to ensure that ocean-based energy – like offshore wind, wave and tidal technologies – has the appropriate licensing and environmental protections in place. While marine renewable technologies are pretty new, they are being developed worldwide and Nova Scotia is looking to tidal energy to help reduce fossil fuel consumption and create jobs in the province.

Belfair estuary returned to natural state

12/22/2015

Kitsap Sun-

BELFAIR — For the past three decades, local land trusts and state agencies have worked hard at restoring and preserving more than 700 acres of estuary habitat in lower Hood Canal’s Lynch Cove wetlands. Now, in partnership with the Beard’s Cove Community Organization, Great Peninsula Conservancy is completing restoration on the missing link of the greater Lynch Cove estuary.

ORPC receives US$2.5 million grant for MHK development through ARPA-E

12/21/2015

HydroWorld-

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Portland, Oregon-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. a US$2.25 million grant for testing the deployment, anchor and retrieval system of ORPC’s tidal and river units at the marine hydrokinetics (MHK) project site in Cobscook Bay, Maine.

Chinook Salmon Have Returned To Columbia River In Record Numbers

12/21/2015

Seattle Times –

Chinook salmon returns this past spring, summer and fall materialized into some memorable fishing outings for sport anglers in the Columbia River.
“The adult fall-chinook return is a record of nearly 1.4 million (forecast was 925,000 in 2015 and previous record was more than 1.2 million in 2013) that dates back to at least 1962,” Joe Hymer, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist said of the numerous records broken this past season.

Bad news: Scientists say we could be underestimating Arctic methane emissions

12/21/2015

Washington Post-

Arctic permafrost has become a recent star in the climate change conversation, capturing the attention of scientists, activists and policymakers alike because of its ability to emit large quantities of carbon dioxide as well as methane — a particularly potent though relatively short-lived greenhouse gas — when it thaws. As temperatures rise in the Arctic, scientists are increasingly concerned that permafrost will become a major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming.

$21 Million And 7 Years Later, New Ocean Energy Project Will Imitate Kelp

12/17/2015

Clean Technica-

Ocean energy was barely mentioned during the just-completed COP21 Paris climate talks, but considering that more of the Earth’s surface will be undersea in the coming years, the ocean will likely become a key player in our sustainable energy future. With that in mind let’s take a look at a new $21 million ocean energy device called bioWAVE, which has just been deployed off the coast of Australia near Port Fairy, Victoria.

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Stillaguamish to benefit from salmon grants

Nova Scotia puts ocean-based renewable energy on the agenda

Belfair estuary returned to natural state

ORPC receives US$2.5 million grant for MHK development through ARPA-E

Chinook Salmon Have Returned To Columbia River In Record Numbers

Bad news: Scientists say we could be underestimating Arctic methane emissions

$21 Million And 7 Years Later, New Ocean Energy Project Will Imitate Kelp

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