Southern Maine homebuilders are on track to build fewer new homes in 2011 than at any time in at least the past 20 years, figures show.
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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Southern Maine to see fewest new homes in 20 years
Southern Maine homebuilders are on track to build fewer new homes in 2011 than at any time in at least the past 20 years, figures show.
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Maine residents lead New England in cutting heating oil use
Maine residents slashed their heating oil use by 45 percent between 2004 and 2009, a dramatic reduction that’s highlighting the combined power of rising prices, stepped-up weatherization and new heating technologies.
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Year of the hawk causes problems at jetport
PORTLAND — The Cooper’s hawk was not happy. The hapless juvenile had made the mistake of hunting for a meal near a general aviation runway at the Portland International Jetport. Now it was caged and flapping around in a trap, waiting for a federal wildlife biologist to set it free.
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Mainers using less heating oil recently
Maine residents slashed their heating oil use by 45 percent between 2004 and 2009, a dramatic reduction that’s highlighting the combined power of rising prices, stepped-up weatherization and new heating technologies.
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Hawks create problems at jetport
PORTLAND — The Cooper’s hawk was not happy. The hapless juvenile had made the mistake of hunting for a meal near a general aviation runway at the Portland International Jetport.
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Pan Am suing Yarmouth trade publication
The parent company that operates a regional freight railroad covering most of northern New England has sued a small, Yarmouth-based trade publication for libel.
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Yarmouth-based trade publication sued for libel
The parent company that operates a regional freight railroad covering most of northern New England has sued a small, Yarmouth-based trade publication for libel.
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Railroad sues Yarmouth trade publication and editor
Pan Am Systems Inc. of Dover, N.H., has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Atlantic Northeast Rails & Ports and its editor, Chalmers “Chop” Hardenbergh.