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Environmentalists concerned over Red-Dead canal plans
Environmental groups have expressed concern about plans to build a canal between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea - transferring water from the former to save the latter. They say not enough research has been done and alternative options have not been checked. `We are concerned about what will happen to the Dead Sea when this amount of marine water is pumped into it,` said Gidon Bromberg of Friends of the Earth Middle East, at a 30 July public hearing organised by the World Bank in Herziliya, which followed two others in Ramallah and Amman.
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Making waves work: wave energy trials underway in Wellington
A uniquely ‘Kiwi’ wave energy generator is harnessing the power of waves in Evans Bay Wellington. The device has been developed by Wave Energy Technology New Zealand (WET-NZ) – a partnership between the Crown Research Institutes Industrial Research Limited (IRL), and NIWA, and the Wellington power consultancy Power Projects Limited (PPL). The generator in Evans Bay is an experimental prototype. At a quarter of full-size, it is the product of four years of intensive research and development, funded by the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology.
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