{"id":1190,"date":"2013-12-04T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/coastal-monitoring\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:36:54","slug":"marine-renewables-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2013\/12\/04\/marine-renewables-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Renewables in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1198 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/Ottawa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/187;\" \/>In November, Ian Davies joined an SDI mission to the annual meeting of Marine Renewables Canada in Ottawa.\u00a0 The trail had already been blazed by Phil Gilmour and Rob Watret who had visited Ottawa in the last couple of years.\u00a0 Canada has considerable potential for marine renewables, with wave power in the west and the huge tides available in the Bay of Fundy.\u00a0 However, Scotland is much further down the road, with planning and licensing functions organised, a working test centre, and commercial projects coming forward for licensing.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the event were:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The enthusiasm of the Nova Scotia Energy Minister for tidal power<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The strong desire of NS Government and researchers to collaborate with Scotland<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The parallels between their concerns over striped bass and ours over salmon<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The strong emphasis on community-scale renewables projects in a national climate dominated by oil, coal and hydro power.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that there will be a delegation from Canada at the EIMR conference in Stornoway in April\/May next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November, Ian Davies joined an SDI mission to the annual meeting of Marine Renewables Canada in Ottawa.\u00a0 The trail had already been blazed by Phil Gilmour and Rob Watret who had visited Ottawa in the last couple of years.\u00a0 Canada has considerable potential for marine renewables, with wave power in the west and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mss","category-renewables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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