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Tourism, Food and Drink: • Last weekend saw the staging of the annual “Taste North” event organised at Ackergill Tower by Venture North with support from a range of organisations including CNSRP partner the NDA. Despite the less than ideal weather, the event attracted a record number of visitors (around 1,000), and a range of […]
Energy & business services: • The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm development will see the arrival next week of the first of two crew/ equipment transfer vessels to support the construction of the offshore infrastructure for BOWL. The catamaran vessels (Seacat Intrepid and Seacat Courageous) will be on a 2 year contract to BOWL from Seacat Services, […]
Energy & business services: • The UK Government’s department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) this week announced its latest round of awards through the “Contracts for Difference” mechanism, in which there was mixed news for area projects. The Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) development consented for the Moray Firth – received an award, whilst […]
Tourism, Food & Drink: • The final two cruise ships of the 2017 season visited Caithness this week, with the Braemar and Amadea each docking at Scrabster harbour. It has been particularly good this year to see the efforts being made to provide a welcome to those visitors not taking conducted onshore tours who choose […]
Energy & business services: • It has been a good summer for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project. This week comes news that the project has hit another milestone with the installation of 75% of the foundation piles for the 84 turbines due to be deployed at the site off the Caithness coast. Meanwhile work continues […]
Energy & business services: • Another opportunity to secure employment at the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm’s Operations & Maintenance base in Wick is currently being advertised. This time the vacancy is for a Control Room Operator. The post has an application deadline of 30th August, and application information is at http://www.jobs-north.co.uk/search-results/control-room-operator-lja-48639681.aspx?jobId=LJA-48639681&agentId=929325&viewedfrom=2 CNSRP partner HIE’s recently-appointed Director […]
Energy & business services: • Caithness Chamber of Commerce this week ran an event sponsored by CNSRP partner Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The main speaker was Bill Cattanach of the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA), with introductory presentations by myself and Sandy Mackie of Scrabster Harbour Trust. As previously highlighted, CNSRP has identified West […]
Energy & business services: • As I highlighted recently, the company behind the proposed floating offshore windfarm demonstrator off the coast near Dounreay recently went into into administration. Administrators French Duncan have opened a “data room” for potential buyers. Original project development company Dounreay Tri had proposed a project that would have seen an operations […]
Energy & business services: • Disappointing news that the company behind the proposed floating offshore windfarm demonstrator off the coast near Dounreay has gone into administration. Dounreay Tri had proposed a project that would have seen an operations and maintenance base set up at Scrabster harbour for the lifetime of the project. Today’s John O’Groat […]
Energy & business services: • Atlantis Resources has reinstalled two of the four tidal turbines at its MeyGen project site in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth. The two remaining turbines in Phase 1A of this project are due to be reinstalled at the next suitable tide in August. http://renews.biz/107758/andritz-tidal-kit-back-at-meygen/ • Construction work continues […]