Portugal Environment News

International Marketing Portugal were pleased to hear recently that the Cresmina dunes at Guincho in the municipality of Cascais will have an environmental centre by this summer, representing an investment of more than €3 million.

Dragão Porto was recently pleased to hear that European forestry scientists have begun a multi-national field trial to identify trees that will thrive, as predicted climate change develops.

The campaign launched and developed in 2010 by Tetre Park and the Agros dairy company is directed at consumers, and has raised €18,000 to purchase indigenous tree specimens such as oaks.

MEGAJOULE|Inovação released results of the ongoing Windie™ Validation Programme. In its commitment to provide an increasingly better service to its clients, MEGAJOULE|Inovação performs continuing validation studies of its CFD results.

A tornado has hit several towns in central Portugal Tomar and Ferreira do Zezere have both been hit.

Sea For Life introduces WEGA (Wave Energy Gravitational Absorber). The WEGA device is an articulated suspended body, semi-submerged, attached to a mount structure, which oscillates in an elliptical orbit with the passage of the waves.

"Vladmir Puchenko is the new WaterMicronWorld Distributor for Eastern Europe"

MEGAJOULE foi escolhida pela Associação Portuguesa de Energias Renováveis (APREN) para desenvolver o índice de eolicidade para Portugal Continental.

MEGAJOULE was selected by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN) to develop the wind index for continental Portugal.

Porto, PT – MEGAJOULE has created a branch fully dedicated to advanced wind modelling solutions, innovation and research.

Porto, PT- MEGAJOULE’s executive board member Miguel Ferreira attended last week’s workshop at APREN in Lisbon.

PORTO, PT - The MEGAJOULE Board approved new offices in Fortaleza, Brazil and Warsaw, Poland which will officially take up their work from January.

Demand for water has never been as great as it is today, and it will only increase due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production,

The Hitachi-Cobra Consortium assigned SGS Portugal to manage and supervise all quality-related activities during the whole upgrade process of the Sines Thermal Power Plant in Portugal.

"Rock in Rio 2008 – Escola Solar" submitted by Better World, Lobosolar and ADENE wins the Energy Globe Award -Youth category, competing with the projects "Latent heat buffer" - Austria and "Ecological Lifestyle via the Environmental Diary" - Japan

Two companies believe promoting a “Green Algarve” would radically differentiate the region, promote responsible sustainability, and attract investment not yet considered.