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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PublishedOctober 25, 2011
Proposed Maine plant would ship wood pellets overseas
A wood products company in Baldwin plans to build an $80 million pellet manufacturing plant that would send most of its output 28 miles by rail to Portland for export to Europe.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2011
New plant would shipwood pellets to Europe
Exporting from the facility in Baldwin via Portland would expand the market for Maine wood products.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Maine reflects solar industry’s rapid growth
ARUNDEL — On the lawn behind the Solar Market offices here, 144 solar-electric panels are mounted across a 100-foot long run of wooden racks. No surprise, really, to see a photovoltaic system outside a company that sells the hardware.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Ellsworth becoming a place where people stop and stay
ELLSWORTH — A young eagle watches from a rock as Randy Heckman steers his skiff through the mooring field on the Union River. The city’s harbormaster, Heckman is on the water a couple of hours after sunrise, checking boats and enjoying the hidden beauty of this wooded tidal waterway.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2011
Lowe’s fate stuns some,but analysts do the math
The closing of two Lowe’s stores shows the effects of slow housing and construction sectors, they say.
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PublishedOctober 17, 2011
Lowe’s shuts storesin Biddeford, Ellsworth
The Lowe’s stores in Biddeford and Ellsworth were anchor tenants clustered in and around so-called power centers, part of a fresh wave of big-box retail development that washed across Maine just prior to the 2008 economic collapse. Both were located across from existing Home Depot stores.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Toss another heat alternative onto the fire
BRUNSWICK — Six years ago, Mike Sullivan ordered a few cords of what had been advertised as seasoned firewood. It wasn’t. The wood was so green, it barely burned in his stove.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Natural gas extensions could need state support
Achieving Maine’s goal of extending natural gas lines to unserved areas — and cutting energy costs for major employers — may partly hinge on state government’s willingness to offer loan guarantees for private-sector projects.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
State loan guarantees key to natural gas expansion, cheaper electricity
Achieving Maine’s goal of extending natural gas lines to unserved areas — and cutting energy costs for major employers — may partly hinge on state government’s willingness to offer loan guarantees for private-sector projects.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2011
Heating oil starts season 84 cents higher than year ago
The state’s energy director says higher prices are forecast for this winter.
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