Tidal Power Plan Wins State Funding
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By Diana Graettinger, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 21--A Florida company that hopes to develop power from tidal energy  in Cobscook Bay has received a $300,000 development award from the Maine  Technology Institute.   Ocean Renewable Power Co.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloombergâs plan won qualified support from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a federal official.
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By Nicholas Azzara, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 3--MANATEE -- An answer to the county's boat launch shortage could lie in the heart of a proposed community of 1,100 homes near Anna Maria Island.
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The Ontario government approved 10 electricity-generating projects that will power about 100,000 homes and generate C$700 million ($593 million) in new investment in the province.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Sep. 15--Lockport chemical maker Isochem Inc. has won a $500,000 state  grant to help it pay for a $1.85 million project to install pollution-control  equipment.
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The Western Isles Council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, has approved proposals for a 651MW windfarm scheme to be built on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland.
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By Monte Mitchell, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 20--JEFFERSON   The Ashe County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 yesterday to adopt an ordinance regulating wind-energy systems, but it will take a more detailed look at its provisions.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 10--COLUMBIA -- Negotiations restored most of the money for Horry and Georgetown county projects in the $7.4 billion state budget except $5 million for Interstate 73/74 and a cut of $1 million in funds for beach drainpipe removal.
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The company behind the UK's largest wind farm project - proposed for a Hebridean island  - unveils revised plans.
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By Benjamin N. Gedan, The Providence Journal, R.I.  Jun. 20--A Florida developer has received preliminary approval to  construct a $150-million shipbuilding and repair yard on 43 acres at Quonset  Point.
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By Daniel Wagner, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 20--With the state legislature expected to wrap up business by the end of Thursday and take a recess, a Long Island group is still working to advance its priorities of environmentally sustainable growth through several bills.
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Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco  are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.
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Governor Ed Rendell says the state has averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1,000,000,000 in additional Medicaid funding over the next four years.
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The GE Foundation tomorrow will give $45,000 to improve fish counts in Massachusetts rivers, including the Saugus River, which runs alongside General Electric's aircraft engine plant in Lynn.
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Chesapeake has executed on the first phase of a cash-raising plan it set out in September.
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Plans for two major offshore wind farms in the Thames Estuary are given the government go-ahead.
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In a bid to cut energy use, Maryland yesterday became just the fourth state in the nation to approve a plan that removes the incentive for electric utilities to sell more power in order to make more money.