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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PublishedDecember 16, 2010
Guides, sporting camps oppose wind farm
Known as Bowers Mountain, the wind farm is being planned by a subsidiary of First Wind, the state’s dominant wind energy company.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2010
Census: Income, schooling linked in county towns
Cape Elizabeth, which has Cumberland County’s highest wage, also leads in the percentage of the college-educated.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2010
Calais LNG pulls application
Business interests, who say a terminal would lower industrial costs, voice disappointment.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2010
Cumberland County income, education linked
Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth and Cumberland lead other communities, Census Bureau data shows.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2010
FairPoint meeting broadband goals, PUC finds
No formal investigation will be necessary, regulators say.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2010
Truckers dismayed at weight restriction
A pilot program that allowed heavier trucks on interstate highways has not been extended.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2010
Effort to allow heavier trucks hits a roadblock
The U.S. House passes a funding bill that omits a provision to allow 100,000 pound trucks on the Interstate.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2010
‘Pioneering in pellets’ at $199 a ton
Elizabeth Miller was waiting as a truck backed into her driveway Wednesday afternoon. On the truck’s trailer were five tons of Maine-made wood pellets, produced in Athens this week and driven 65 miles from Jay.
Miller had been buying pellets from hardware stores, but these were selling for the cheapest price she’d ever seen.
“In this economy, I just couldn’t turn it down,” she said. “And the free delivery made a big difference to me.”
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PublishedDecember 8, 2010
Broadband deadline loomsover FairPoint
A little more than three weeks from now, FairPoint Communications is supposed to have high-speed Internet service available to 83 percent of its customers in Maine.
Will that happen?
How can the exact numbers be determined?
Those are questions that state utility regulators pondered Tuesday as the Dec. 31 deadline nears.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2010
Grass for fuel fires hope, debate
A project to use unused farmland as a source for fuel pellets could have a $500 million impact.
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