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| Daughter of 1930s Quoddy Dam Project Manager Visits ORPC |
Date:3rd June, 2010
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ORPC was recently honored to host Ms. Jocelyn Fleming Gutchess. Jocelyn is the daughter of Major Philip B. Fleming, who headed the Quoddy Dam Project in the 1930s. The project, begun but never completed in Eastport, Maine, was the city’s first foray into tidal energy.
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| ORPC's Bob Lewis accepts Creative Economy award from Linda Godfrey of The Commons |
Date:1st May, 2010
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Ocean Renewable Power Company...has brought creative thinking to the business of generating clean, infinitely renewable power from Eastport’s greatest resource, its immense tides,” said Commons co-founder Linda Godfrey, who presented the award. “The simplicity, indeed the elegance, of their tidal generating units has the potential for changing how the world thinks about alternative energy. This kind of creative thinking generates more than electricity; in this case it energizes a community and saves a way of life.
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| F.D.R.’s Brief Dip Into Tidal Energy |
Date: 22nd April, 2010
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Eastport, with tides of 20 feet or more that are among the highest in the United States, has seen this kind of thing before — in the 1930s, during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. F.D.R., who spent many summers on Campobello Island just across the water (and across the Canadian border) from Eastport, was well aware of the tides, as was another part-time Campobello resident, an engineer by the name of Dexter Cooper.
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| UMaine Researchers Begin Fish Studies Aboard Energy Tide 2 |
Date:18th March, 2010
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UMaine researchers Gayle Zydlewski, Ph.D., Jim McCleave, Ph.D. and graduate student Haley Viehman join ORPC's Director of Operations, Bob Lewis on the deck of the Energy Tide #2, The largest tidal energy device ever deployed in U.S. waters.
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| New York Times Reporter Visits With ORPC |
Date:17th March, 2010
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ORPC's Director of Engineering, Jaralth McEntee tours the Energy Tide #2 with Henry Fountain, Science and Technology writer for the New York Times.
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| Tidal Turbine engineer visits students |
Date: 23rd November, 2009
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Eastport students in the fourth through eighth grades proved that they knew more than a little bit about the marine life and tidal currents of Passamaquoddy and Cobscook bays during a recent visit to the science lab by Jarlath McEntee, vice president of technology and engineering for Ocean Renewable Power Company
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| ORPC Meets With Machias Rotary Club |
Date: 22th April, 2009
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ORPC's John Ferland recently met with the Machias Rotary Club to talk about ORPC's upcomming tidal projects in Cobscook Bay and Western Passage near Eastport, ME.
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| ORPC participates in the Washington County: One Community event |
Date: 17th February, 2009
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Recently Ocean Renewable Power Company was proud to participate in the Washington County: One Community event in the Hall of Flags area of the State House in Augusta, Maine. ORPC joined businesses from all over Washington county.
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| ORPC Celebrates Independence Day in Eastport, ME |
Date: 4th July, 2008
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This year there was a new addition to the Eastport Fourth of July Parade. Ocean Renewable Power Company created and drove a float in the parade.
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