FERC Approves First Hydrokinetic Device for Existing Hydroelectric Project

Celeste M. Miller - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Date: 12/15/2008

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the first installation of ahydrokinetic device at an existing FERC-licensed hydroelectric project, to be located on the Mississippi Riverin Hastings, Minn.Hydrokinetic devices generate electricity from waves or directly from the flow of water in oceancurrents… Read More

Tri-state water wars fought on many fronts

Harris Blackwood - The Gainesville Times

Date: 11/30/2008

The 18-year-old dispute over water between Georgia, Florida and Alabama is a tangled web that includes seven federal lawsuits in three different court systems and a plethora of plaintiffs.There are six suits that have been moved to the Middle District of Florida, where a federal judge from Minnesota, Paul Magnuson, will… Read More

Ethanol Gasoline in Marine Engines

Lakes Online - LakesOnline.com

Date: 11/19/2008

Your boat’s greatest enemy may be its fuel. There are a number of reports in the press about the negative effects of ethanol in marine fuel tanks -- this is a concern for boat owners. The problem began when many areas began banning the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), replacing it with ethanol blends. This… Read More

28-year-old Kim Bain - First Woman to fish Bassmaster Classic

Sam Eifling - ESPN Bassmaster

Date: 11/3/2008

The differences between the Bassmaster Classic in 1969 and in 2009 will be profound. The man who won that first Classic, Bobby Murray, remembers the weigh-in taking place on the roof of a floating dock on Lake Mead — a lake that none of the competitors had fished before, nor knew, until they were in the air en route… Read More

Agency ready to mediate water wars

Harris Blackwood - The Gainesville Times

Date: 10/29/2008

Could stakeholders along the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin come together and solve the 18-year-old impasse over water between Georgia, Florida and Alabama?That’s the question a federal mediator is trying to determine in a series of meetings that began Wednesday in Buford.Brian Manwaring of the U.S… Read More