Sentences with phrase «ocean fertilization project»

This paper describes an opportunistic case study of the 2012 Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation's (HSRC) ocean fertilization project.

Organizers of a controversial ocean fertilization project off Canada's west coast said officials knew of the undertaking but did not stop it, and that it violated no laws.

CBC News, Leader of B.C. ocean fertilization project fired, 24 May 2013; http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/24/bc-ocean-fertilization.html.

But he acknowledges that governments, wary of controversy, have shied away from funding further ocean fertilization projects, and he's skeptical of corporate efforts to support them, fearing a lack of scientific objectivity.

However, according to Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, an expert in International Law and the Law of the Sea at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who also attended the Woods Hole meeting, ocean fertilization projects are not currently approved under any carbon credit regulatory scheme and the sale of offsets or credits from ocean fertilization on the unregulated voluntary markets is basically nothing short of fraudulent.

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Despite the Haida project's problems, Riedijk says that ocean fertilization merits further research: «If this actually does work, it does have global implications.»

In that project, US entrepreneur Russ George convinced a Haida Nation village to pursue iron fertilization to boost salmon populations, with the potential to sell carbon credits based on the amount of CO2 that would be sequestered in the ocean.

If I did, I'd drop $ 200 million on Bussard (I'm sure he'd enjoy that); $ 200 million on kickstarting a vertical farming industry, the same on ocean iron - fertilization studies, another chunk on developing an agrichar infrastructure, and the rest on various projects that can't get funding because they have a low probability of success, but massive payoff if they do work.

They asserted the project violated international ocean - dumping rules and a moratorium on ocean fertilization.

In that project, US entrepreneur Russ George convinced a Haida Nation village to pursue iron fertilization to boost salmon populations, with the potential to sell carbon credits based on the amount of CO2 that would be sequestered in the ocean.

In 2008, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity put in place a moratorium on all ocean - fertilization projects apart from small ones in coastal waters.