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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PublishedNovember 17, 2010
Portland area seen as prime hydrogen fueling site
An official visits the city to outline his company’s vision for stations to serve fuel-cell-powered vehicles.
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PublishedNovember 14, 2010
Will turbines rise on Rollins Mountain?
Opponents seek to exploit the shifting political and financial climate to hobble the developer of Maine’s next wind farm
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PublishedNovember 11, 2010
‘Hydrogen highway’ may run to Portland
A network of nine East Coast service stations is proposed for electric cars powered by fuel cells.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2010
Wind-power protesters arrested
Five people are arrested after about three dozen block construction vehicles Monday.
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PublishedNovember 8, 2010
Protesters arrested at Lincoln windfarm
Five people were arrested this morning after they refused to stop blocking construction vehicles at the Rollins wind energy project here.
The arrests came as roughly three dozen protesters gathered at the entrance to the project site, shortly before 8 a.m. The action was part of a rally planned by citizen groups opposed to the project on Rollins Mountain, as well as other large-scale wind energy proposals around the state.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2010
Feature Obituary: Dr. Raphael Turgeon, 86, was boxing commissioner
Many Mainers remember the infamous Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay heavyweight championship match, held in 1965, in Lewiston. They know Clay, later Muhammad Ali, knocked out Liston in the first round in what came to be called “the phantom punch.” Fewer people remember Liston’s physician, Dr. Raphael Turgeon of Westbrook, who was Portland’s boxing commissioner for many […]
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PublishedNovember 6, 2010
Dentists’ services at no charge give hurting Mainers something to smile about
SCARBOROUGH – People — desperate, hurting people — were waiting in line at the Dunstan Dental Center early Friday. By late afternoon, a team of dentists, oral surgeons and hygienists had treated 120 patients who needed dental care but couldn’t afford it.
For a second year, members of the Greater Portland Dental Society offered their services free of charge. Organizers say they plan to make Dentists Who Care for ME an annual event in November. Over time, they hope to expand it statewide.
The national debate over health care and health insurance has largely ignored the plight of dental care, organizers say, although many people with dental emergencies end up in the hospital emergency room. When money is tight and people are out of work, dental care often is ignored until it becomes an emergency.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2010
Freeport assesses firefighting risks: Flame? smoke? No, heart attacks
Working with a local cardiologist, Freeport will evaluate the cardiac health of nine firefighters.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2010
Local vote tallies to be delayed in Cape Elizabeth
Two school board seats are open this year, and town officials are expecting between 1,000 and 2,000 write-in votes.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2010
Limington man in jail after stand off
State troopers responded to reports that Kevin Ridlon was threatening his girlfriend.
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