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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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  • Published
    June 15, 2012

    Norwegian company to hold public hearings on wind farm proposall

    The Norwegian company that wants to built a demonstration floating wind farm off the coast near Boothbay Harbor will hold three public meetings this month to update its progress and answer questions.

  • Published
    June 1, 2012

    Protesters oppose east-west highway plan

    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.

  • Published
    June 1, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 30, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 30, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 27, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 27, 2012

    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 […]

  • Published
    May 16, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 16, 2012

    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.

  • Published
    May 15, 2012

    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.