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- PolitiFact RI: Offshore wind power critic James O’Neil says wind power is the most unreliable type of renewable energy (9/8/13)
The debate over Deepwater Wind’s plans to build two wind energy projects in the waters off Rhode Island and Massachusetts has raised several issues.
- Editorial: Northern Pass jobs? Another transparent PR push (8/20/13)
First, Northern Pass presented its scores of miles of power lines as a job-creation program for the North Country. Look, construction jobs! The good people up north saw right through that, and Northern Pass was left with massive amounts of bad will.
- Opinion: Offshore wind energy a major step closer (8/2/13)
Anyone who uses online auction sites knows how it often happens that everybody lurks without bidding until the last feverish minute when everybody jumps in. That's a lot what it looked like Wednesday as the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management conducted the first-ever offshore wind energy auction.
- Editorial: Dangerous delays on crude oil policies (8/1/13)
A peculiar paralysis appears to have pervaded the Obama administration when it comes to energy and transportation policies
- Opinion: Nancy Martland: Who do you think you’re kidding, Northern Pass? (7/28/13)
Today's mail brought a Northern Pass brochure touting its “new route.” It paints a rosy picture, the colors are soft and inviting, and the graphics look nice, but it is disingenuous at best. Beginning with the headline, “We’ve listened.”
- Editorial: Power to the masses (CT) (9/5/13)
Over the past couple of weeks, two of the arguments made against nuclear power by opponents seem to have gotten stronger: that it is too dangerous, and that it is too expensive.
- Opinion: Wind and the Berkshires (8/13/13)
Recently, I was one of 24 Berkshire and Franklin County residents randomly selected to attend a daylong symposium at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts held to measure public opinion in the hill towns of Western Massachusetts on the question of industrial-scale wind energy.
- Editorial: Going ‘green:’ By force, not choice (8/1/13)
In two years, PSNH could not get even 150 customers to pay more each month to buy electricity from “green” sources. The state’s largest utility has received permission to end its EarthSmart Green Rate program, and other utilities are considering following PSNH’s lead. That is worth discussing.
- Editorial: O’s slick pipeline claims (8/1/13)
Does anyone still believe that President Obama has yet to make up his mind about the Keystone XL pipeline project?
- Analysis: The tar sands fight in our backyard (7/26/13)
Opponents of tar sands oil flowing into South Portland have awakened a powerful foe: an industry that says a pre-emptive city ordinance threatens its existing regional investment.