Category: Environment
BEST on Warwick Long Bay Beach Bar
Environmental group BEST has commented on the news that Mr. Belcario Thomas has re-submitted his application to build a beach bar and restaurant at Warwick Long Bay. On August 4th 2010, Justice Ian Kawaley quashed Environment Minister Glen Blakeney’s decision allow a beach bar to be built on Warwick Long Bay. The Minister’s decision came after the... Read more of this article
Michelmore on Warwick Long Bay Application
[Written by Dr Katherine Michelmore, Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for BDA on the Environment] I note with concern that Mr. Belcario Thomas has resubmitted an application to build a beach bar at Warwick Long Bay. The history of this business venture is now well documented, it being over 2 years since the original application was submitted in April... Read more of this article
Bermuda National Trust Awards Legal Firm
Mello Jones & Martin received the Bermuda National Trust’s highest honour, the Silver Palmetto, which was presented at a ceremony yesterday evening [Oct 14]. In addition, other awards were given in the areas of architecture, preservation, education, awareness and long service to the Trust. The Silver Palmetto is awarded for outstanding service... Read more of this article
BEST: “Development Being Negotiated In Secret”
One of the island’s leading environmental organizations is concerned that a “major development is being negotiated in secret,” saying that there is a “proposal is for a large-scale residential development at Tucker’s Point on lands protected by Nature Conserve, Woodland Reserve and Coastal Conserve designations.” The... Read more of this article
Order Protecting Spotted Eagle Rays Issued
On October 6th the Minister of Environment and Sports issued a protection order for Spotted Eagle Rays on the advice of the Department of Conservation Services. Action was initiated in mid-August based on observations by Bermuda Aquarium Museum & Zoo that the Spotted Eagle Ray was increasingly being targeted by recreational fisherman. If convicted... Read more of this article
Gorhams Goes Solar: Savings of $100,000 Annually
Alternative Energy Systems (Bermuda) Ltd. (AES) has been awarded a contract by Gorham’s True Value Home Centre to engineer, design, supply and install a photovoltaic solar energy system to generate electricity at its store in Pembroke. Following a similar contract with Lindo’s Group of Companies, this is the second large-scale commercial solar energy... Read more of this article
Beach Erosion: A Post Igor Reflection
[Written by Larry Burchall] Over the years, because Horseshoe Beach has always kept its distinctively elegant half moon shape, Bermudians may have become accustomed to the idea that Horseshoe Beach will be there for eternity. Perhaps it will not. Hurricane Igor’s beach mash-up is a reminder that Nature has awesome power. I am not a tree-hugging environmentalist,... Read more of this article
Super Harvest Moon: First Since 1991
The harvest moon happened in the very early morning hours this morning [Sept 23] only 5 1/2 hours after the autumnal equinox, creating the first Super Harvest Moon since 1991, and the only one in a 38 year span, as it will not occur again to 2029. NASA said the Northern summer changes to fall on Sept. 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT. At that precise moment, called... Read more of this article
TIME: Dr. Sylvia Earle in the Sargasso
The video below shows Dr. Sylvia Earle, a famed American oceanographer with the nickname “Her Deepness”, who traveled to Bermuda recently along with a journalist from TIME Magazine. The video focuses on the Sargasso Sea, and the attempts to preserve it. Dr Earle is considered one of the best of the genre; she is a former Chief Scientist for the... Read more of this article
Southlands Land Swap Agreement Signed
This afternoon [Sept 13] another step was made in the much discussed ‘land swap’, with the principals of Southlands and the Bermuda Government meeting, and signing a formal agreement. The agreement will see a luxury resort built at Morgan’s Point, while Southlands will become a park. A bill is expected to go before the House of Assembly... Read more of this article
Singer: “Treefrogs Are So Loud At Night”
Bermudian singer Heather Nova says she recorded parts of her latest album during daylight hours due to the noise created by Bermuda’s treefrogs. The singer, whose music videos have been played on America’s MTV2, Europe’s MTV and Canada’s MuchMusic, says on her Myspace blog that she recorded parts of her new album “during daylight hours... Read more of this article
TIME Features BDA Institute of Ocean Sciences
TIME Magazine recently sent journalist Bryan Walsh to the island to cover oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle’s trip to Bermuda to conduct research alongside the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). Praising our local research station, TIME Magazine said “BIOS is one of just a handful of institutes worldwide that regularly monitor the ocean... Read more of this article
