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Coral dredging: 'It's going to cause irreversible damage'
2019-12-04 01:24:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Cayman Islands campaigners are fighting to stop coral reefs being dredged for bigger cruise liners.
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Mark Rylance backs campaign to stop dredging off Kent coast
2016-07-05 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The actor Mark Rylance has lent his support to a campaign to stop the dredging of a stretch of sandbanks off the Kent coast. Dover Harbour Board has applied for a licence to dredge Goodwin Sands, which had been proposed as a marine conservation zone, for aggregate to be used in the expansion and development of Dover port. However, a local campaign called Save Our Sands has been established in an attempt to stop the dredging from happening, and has gathered more than 5,500 signatures on an online...
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Florida Dredging Would Cut Path Across Corals in Crisis
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As America's only barrier reefs bleach, dissolve and succumb to disease, experts worry that a $320 million plan to expand oil and cargo shipments through Florida's corals could worsen flooding and threaten ecosystems crucial to fisheries and tourism businesses. Transplanted staghorn coral providing habitat for fish in Florida. In addition to being one of the world's busiest cruise ship terminals, Port Everglades, which in greater Fort Lauderdale is a 45-minute drive north of Miami, is a critical...
Boskalis secures dredging contract in Abu Dhabi
2016-03-09 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster has been selected by the National Petroleum Construction Company of Abu Dhabi, UAE, to perform dredging work for both a new pipeline and a nearby existing line.
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Royal IHC to deliver multifunctional dredging vessel to DEME
2016-02-02 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC has won a contract from Belgium-based Dredging Environmental & Marine Engineering (DEME) group to design, construct and deliver a multifunctional trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD).
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