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Scottish News: '10,000 jobs' in islands renewables

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May 15 2013

Renewable energy projects could create more than 10,000 jobs on the Scottish islands by 2030, according to a Government-commissioned report.

An independent study found investment in wind, wave and tidal energy would bring significant socio-economic benefits to the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney and could establish Scotland as a world leader in marine technologies.

But the expense and difficulty of accessing the National Grid means the Government needs to weigh up the cost and benefits of developing renewable energy on the islands against other sources of electricity , the report said.

The Government has agreed a target of meeting 15% of the UK's energy needs from renewable sources by 2020, which requires about 30% of UK electricity to come from renewables by this date.

The Scottish Government aims to generate the equivalent of 100% of Scotland's gross annual electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2020.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change and Scottish ministers appointed energy consultants Baringa Partners and TNEI to assess whether Scottish Islands renewables could help meet the targets and what was needed to bring the projects forward.

If renewable projects in the region are to be a key contributor to the targets then a co-ordinated policy is "urgently" needed, the consultants advised.

The report said: "We have concluded in our study that further renewable generation on the Scottish Islands will not be developed on any scale in the near term under current policy.

"The costs of connecting to the transmission system are too high, making it difficult for developers and the regulator acting on behalf of customers to commit to costly new transmission infrastructure."

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For Outer Islands, a Little Help from Friends

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WESTBROOK - Everyone needs a few friends-even the town's offshore islands, especially after the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy.

Superstorm Sandy last fall-and Storm Irene the year before-left the town's uninhabited islands-Salt, Duck, and Menunketesuck-badly damaged. Fencing and signage installed to protect bird nesting areas was lost, upended, or washed away by waves and wind. Beach areas where wading birds feed and some nest were badly eroded.

But the birds don't know that and, already, the migrating birds have begun to return. Will the habitat and nesting areas they find now support them in the nesting seasons?

Tom ODell wants to make sure the answer to that question is "Yes." That's why he's trying to organize a group of volunteers as the Friends of Westbrook Islands.

As chairman of the town's Conservation Commission, he has worked with Stewart McKinney National Wildlife Refuge Manager Rick Potvin and representatives of the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), which owns one of the islands, to develop a plan for coordinated management of the three islands. The Friends of Westbrook Islands concept grew out of this informal island management arrangement.

Three entities own and are responsible for managing the three Westbrook offshore islands: DEEP for Duck Island, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Menunketesuck Island, and the town's Conservation Commission for Salt Island.

On May 7 ODell and Potvin co-hosted the first Friends of Westbrook Islands organizational meeting at the Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in Westbrook. The goal of the group will be to provide volunteers willing to help protect the islands' nesting habitats, in coordination with the islands' respective owners.

"The three Westbrook islands are very important to birdlife and are designated as part of the Audubon Society's Important Bird Areas [IBAs]," said Rick Potvin. "On Duck Island, there's long-legged waders that are birds of concern for the state. Also, common terns use the area for nesting and oyster-catchers. Roseate terns fish on the shoals of the three islands."

A coastal bird survey will be conducted from June 3 to 14 to assess the impact of last fall's storms and the damage to habitat on the shore bird populations.

As Potvin described his and ODell's vision for the group, it would be to form an independent entity that would allow conservation and recreation uses of the islands to go hand in hand.

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Health care breach victims plummet

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The number of people affected by health care data breaches drastically dropped from 2011 to 2012, according to an analysis of the latest report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Data breaches impacted 2.5 million people in 2012, a precipitous fall from 2011, when 11 million people were affected, noted Gartner Research Vice President Jack Santos in a blog post on Monday.

"Well I am happy to say that we are off the curve to have 50 percent of the population breached for health care data by 2025," he wrote.

Santos' analysis jibes with a report earlier this year from Redspin, which provides penetration testing, risk management and compliance services to a number of industries, including health care providers.

In its report released in February, Redspin noted that while the number of large breaches in 2012 increased 21.5 percent over 2011, the number of patient records affected by the breaches dropped 77 percent.

Santos cited three possible reasons for the plummeting numbers:

In its report, Redspin maintains that tougher regulations and high-profile settlements contributed significantly to the year-to-year fall in affected clients.

The report said more hospitals have begun to conduct security risk assessments mandated by federal law and regulation, while the federal agency charged with protecting the privacy and security of medical records -- the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) -- began to impress on the industry that the regulators were serious about privacy and security through fines and monetary settlements.

[Also see: Law firms see big money in healthcare breach cases]

"During the same time period, OCR began to wield its enforcement authority, publicly announcing several high profile investigations that resulted in breach resolution agreements," the report said.

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