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- State seeks $35,000 Vermont Gas fine (7/31/14)
MONTPELIER- State regulators on Thursday asked for a $35,000 fine against Vermont Gas Systems for being slow to file a new and higher cost estimate for phase one of a natural gas pipeline expansion in western Vermont
- Power bills to rise for CMP customers after decision in controversial rate case (8/4/14)
PORTLAND — Central Maine Power Co. said power bills for residential and small business customers are set to go up an average of $2.07 per month, starting Sept. 1.
- Yankee to break ground on $7B natural gas expansion (7/31/14)
Berlin utility Yankee Gas on Monday will break ground on its natural gas system expansion, part of a statewide plan to make natural gas the fuel of choice in Connecticut through the addition of 280,000 customers.
- State schedules second meeting about controversial Bagaduce aquaculture (7/30/14)
PENOBSCOT — The Maine Department of Marine Resources plans to hold another community meeting this week about controversial aquaculture operations in the tidal Bagaduce River.
- Two CT trash-to-energy plants to sell in $2B deal (7/30/14)
The parent company of the trash-to-energy facilities in Bridgeport and Lisbon will sell them to a New Jersey capital firm in a $1.94 billion deal that includes 21 power plants throughout the country.
- Yankee breaks ground on $7B natural gas expansion (7/31/14)
Berlin utility Yankee Gas on Monday broke ground on its natural gas system expansion, part of a statewide plan to make natural gas the fuel of choice in Connecticut through the addition of 280,000 customers.
- Public input enhanced in Maine’s new dam law (7/31/14)
A new law that takes effect Friday will ensure increased public input, greater legislative oversight and more transparency whenever a dam has to be relicensed.
- Sit-in briefly disrupts Vermont Gas worksite (7/30/14)
WILLISTON – Bearing banners, protest songs and a symbolic "stop-work order," unexpected visitors to a Vermont Gas pipeline work site on Wednesday prompted a 90 minute pause in operations.
- CCAT gets $53K to study alternative fuels facility (7/30/14)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $53,000 grant to the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to continue a feasibility study of building an alternative fuels facility in rural north-central Connecticut, CCAT announced
- Warwick residents urged to help city win energy-savings grant (7/29/14)
Mayor Scott Avedisian’s office reminded residents that they have until the end of August to sign up for energy-saving tips online and if the city gets 5 percent of its residents and local businesses to take part in the program, Warwick will receive a $7,500 grant from National Grid to help the community further its energy-saving efforts.