Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and RWE npower Renewables are behind the scheme off Holyhead, between the Skerries and Carmel Head.
Plans for the energy scheme were first put forward four years ago by Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and the power company RWE nPower.
Martin Wright, managing director of Marine Current Turbines, said Strangford Lough had one of the strongest tidal currents in the British Isles and was therefore "a perfect location for us to test a pre-commercial device".
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Former Royal Marine and current Housing Minister Keith Brown closed the debate by accepting invitations from the SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, James Dornan and Dennis Robertson who represents Aberdeenshire West, to visit veterans' projects in their constituencies.
With a focus on key topical issues such as marine pollution, exploitation and hazards, chapters range from the history of ocean management to current advances in marine science, observation and management applications, and the international agencies active in co-ordinating this work.
All five participating countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal) are within the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem, thereby aligned across an important environmental transition which will be better identified and addressed by each of these countries if they understand features and processes in neighboring states.
With its current place set within the global marine transportation field, these new improvements will drive the port among the elite of the world.
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Finding a vehicle that can do that has become the top ground modernization priority of the Marine Corps, but getting it funded in the current budget environment will be tough.
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That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world-a massive collaborative undertaking by hundreds of experts around the globe.
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The current transports water from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans throughout the Arctic, said Tom Weingartner, a marine scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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