Tomorrow (Wednesday), an Irish High Court will begin to sort out the ownership of an Irish company whose bankruptcy forced it to abandon its gigantic principal asset — a doughnut-shaped, five-storey high, 1,000-tonne turbine — an ocean away at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy. The third version of the company’s device, designed to...
Minas Basin tidal project stalled until at least the summer
It will be at least next summer before another attempt is made to tame the Bay of Fundy to produce tidal power. “We’re continuing to upgrade the next turbine we’ll deploy,” says Stacey Pineau, an Emera employee and spokesperson for Cape Sharp Tidal near Parrsboro. Cape Sharp is a joint venture between Emera and OpenHydro,...