DOVER-FOXCROFT — Scores of protesters, many carrying signs and wearing blaze-orange shirts and armbands, were assembled here this afternoon to oppose plans to build an east-west highway across central Maine.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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Protesters gather before presentation on east-west highway proposal
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Scores of protesters, many carrying signs and wearing blaze-orange shirts and armbands, were assembled here this afternoon to oppose plans to build an east-west highway across central Maine.
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For now, crude oil is taking the train
Crude oil from the West has begun moving across Maine — not by pipeline, as some environmental activists fear it will someday; but by railroad.
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104-car train hauling oil crosses Maine
Crude oil from the West has begun moving across Maine — not by pipeline, as some environmental activists fear it will someday; but by railroad.
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Idea of project already draws heated debate
Peter Vigue is used to freely jetting around North America in search of economic opportunities. In recent months, though, he has felt it necessary to bring along a private security team when he drives to Dover-Foxcroft, Lincoln and Augusta.
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Vigue turns ambition to an East-West Highway
Peter Vigue is used to freely jetting around North America in search of economic opportunities. In recent months, though, he has felt it necessary to bring along a private security team when he drives to Dover-Foxcroft, Lincoln and Augusta. Vigue is the chairman and chief executive officer of Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp., one of the East […]
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Massive Plum Creek easement touches off celebration
PORTLAND — Representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and the Plum Creek timber company came together Tuesday to celebrate a new conservation easement that’s considered one of the largest ever in the United States.
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Moosehead easement to set aside 363,000 acres
PORTLAND — Representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Forest Society of Maine and the Plum Creek timber company came together Tuesday to celebrate a new conservation easement that’s considered one of the largest ever in the United States.
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Moosehead land easement to protect 363,000 acres
The easement is considered one of the largest in the history of conservation in the United States.
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CMP upgrade found wanting
Central Maine Power Co.’s $1.4 billion transmission system upgrade isn’t designed to handle the power that can be made available at times from new and existing alternative energy plants in northern and eastern Maine, federal utility regulators and the region’s grid operator have determined.