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 23, 2010
Maine lawyers help uncover mishandled foreclosures
Now they’re trying to get a summary judgment in a GMAC case nullified to keep a Denmark woman in her home.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2010
Where there’s a mill … there’s a way
Throw in the dowels? Not these investors, who believe that even in the midst of a tough economy, Maine’s once-vital woodworking plants can be retooled, reopened and made profitable all over again
GREENWOOD – Time is frozen inside the Saunders Brothers mill here. Resting on a stack of maple dowels is a sales order from last March for 1,392 rolling pins. Some of the dowels are sanded and polished, stacked where workers left them five months ago, when the factory suddenly closed and put 55 local residents on the street.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2010
Calais LNG permit on hold until Dec. 1
The BEP gives the developer more time to line up financing and get additional information.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2010
LNG developer gets more time
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection has decided to give a developer more time to try to line up financing and gather technical information for a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Calais. In a letter today to Calais LNG, the board’s chair, Susan Lessard, said she would place the company’s permit application on hold […]
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2010
Board refuses to delay Calais LNG meeting
The company had requested a 30-day delay before providing a status report to the board.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2010
TD Bank puts a new twist on banker’s hours
PORTLAND – It’s only 8 a.m., and Donna Stevens is already on her second visit to TD Bank’s branch at Northgate. After cashing a check at the drive-up window, she decided to walk into the lobby to use the ATM.
Stevens, who lives nearby, said she likes to do her banking early, while her family is still in bed. She also visits the bank on Sundays.
“The hours are so nice, I can do everything I need to do,” she said.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2010
‘Vanished, with no explanation’
The children of Robert Schultze of Shapleigh want to celebrate his life…
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2010
Its founder gone, Ocean Energy searches for direction
The institute’s directors are custodians of a bold vision — making Maine a global center of offshore wind power.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2010
Portland a top option for ferry to Maritimes
Nova Scotia officials are eager to resume a cruise-type service that had linked the regions until 2004.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2010
Shtick shift in Saco: Jolly John selling dealership for new road in life
John Pulsifer was done with school and realizing that his ambitions of being a lawyer on Wall Street weren’t panning out. Then his dad gave an ultimatum: Get a job by week’s end, or work for me. Pulsifer didn’t want to pump gas at his father’s service station in Portland. He found a job selling […]
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