Energy Update

President Obama’s Clean Power Plan would survive even if a Republican president is elected in 2016, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said.

OTTAWA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The environmental review of existing proposals for crude oil pipeline is continuing despite the new Liberal government's plans to revamp the assessment process to make it more robust, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said on Wednesday.

Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and consultancy firm Frazer-Nash, both based in the UK, will perform a live demonstration of their marine hydrokinetics (MHK) energy project risk assessment tool during the International Tidal Energy Summit pre-conference risk and reliability workshop in London on Nov. 23.
 

A mounting sense of urgency is counterbalanced by the realization that islands offer an important opportunity to find innovative, “hybrid” solutions that combine renewable and traditional energy sources.