Edinburgh renewable energy company Aquamarine Power Limited has been short-listed for the 2010 Observer Ethical Awards, organised by The Observer and Ecover.
The awards seek to recognise those who are busy thinking up practical solutions to ethical issues. The awards do not target environmental or energy issues alone, but have a wide scope for recognition of work in all significant areas where an issue of some importance is at stake. The awards themselves are viewed as a high accolade.
Previous winners include David Attenborough. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is short-listed as campaigner of the year for his work with landshare.net where he marries up people seeking to grown food with those who have land to share, as is Joanna Lumley who campaigned successfully for Gurkha justice.
Aquamarine Power which has its head office in Edinburgh is the owner and developer of the Oyster device which seeks to generate electricity from wave power. Its first-generation Oyster device is already installed at the Emec centre in Orkney. It is a near-shore device which creates zero-emission electricity. You can see it in operation on Youtube.
