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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PublishedSeptember 29, 2014
Third company looks to expand natural gas pipeline in Maine
State regulators are trying to decide whether ratepayers should shoulder up to $75 million a year for added natural gas capacity.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2014
Portland pipeline business drying up as Canadian market shifts
Oil shipments to Montreal are down 60 percent, leaving the future of the line and its South Portland terminal in doubt.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2014
Shrinking pipeline shipments deplete Maine’s oil cleanup fund
The Surface Oil Clean-up Fund collects a fee on crude oil and refined products such as gasoline.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2014
Maine regulators agree on safety of CMP’s ‘smart meters’
But two Public Utilities Commission members differ on the fee for opting out of the Central Maine Power program.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2014
Powered by the sun – via panels many miles away
Nine Mainers unable to install an array at home buy shares to get electricity from the state’s first community solar farm.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2014
Challenges impede Mainers’ switch to natural gas
An Augusta-based company has an ambitious plan to get homeowners to convert but faces technical issues and criticism from competitors.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2014
Maine regulators to revisit onerous gas-conversion rule
Proposed testing of burners to ensure safety is costly and unnecessary, gas companies say.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2014
Cutler, Michaud outline long-term energy goals
Both offer some specifics, but their presentations at the Environmental & Energy Technology Council of Maine’s forum were heavy on the generalities.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2014
Historic trails beckon new users to Katahdin area
Mountain bikers and other adventurers are discovering the travel corridors used for centuries by Indians.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2014
Remote town could offer the road to recreation
Forty miles northeast of Millinocket, Patten pines to be the gateway into Katahdin Woods & Waters.
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