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- Percentage of women running farms in Maine more than double national average (7/23/14)
MORRILL — Farmer Rose Rapp lunged left and sheep shearer Edie Kershner dove to the right Tuesday afternoon, as the two worked together to pull a single animal out of the panicked, woolly stampede of sheep penned up in a rickety Waldo County barn.
- Trashanol: Vendor pitches garbage-to-energy technology to board representing 187 Maine towns (7/23/14)
ORONO — While the Department of Environmental Protection considers an application from the Municipal Review Committee to open an integrated solid waste and recycling facility with a landfill in Penobscot County, the MRC board heard a presentation Wednesday from technology vendor Fiberight.
- Maine regulators again approve joint wind venture (7/22/14)
The Maine Public Utilities Commission once again granted its approval to a multimillion-dollar joint venture to develop wind-generation projects after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturned its initial approval and sent the case back for reconsideration.
- Firm pulls $10 million investment in Cate Street’s Millinocket project (7/21/14)
PORTLAND — The New Jersey-based investment firm CCG Community Partners has withdrawn its $10 million investment in Thermogen Industries in Millinocket for the same reasons a Maine-based investor pulled $20 million in funding earlier this month.
- Paper and pulp mills in Maine seeking relief from tax burden (6/15/14)
Several companies operating paper and pulp mills in towns across Maine say the local tax bills they’re paying are more than the buildings, property and equipment are worth to an industry that provides jobs for thousands and makes up a significant portion of the state’s tax base.
- Downeast LNG proposes expanded project, submits request to energy regulators (7/23/14)
ROBBINSTON — Downeast LNG has submitted a pre-filing request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to develop its proposed liquefied natural gas import-export facility, the company announced Wednesday.
- Rockland residents to launch effort to repeal pay-per-bag trash disposal rule (7/22/14)
ROCKLAND — A petition drive is expected to be formally launched Wednesday morning to repeal the mandatory pay-per-bag trash disposal law approved earlier this month by the city council.
- South Portland girds for legal battle, praised for precedent on its tar sands ban (7/22/14)
Conservation groups and other areas celebrate the city’s stand against the heavy crude, as opponents map out strategies for overturning the new regulation.
- Investor withdraws at least $20 million from Thermogen wood pellet plant project in Millinocket (7/1/14)
PORTLAND — An investment firm has withdrawn at least $20 million it considered committing to Thermogen Industries, the company created and managed by Cate Street Capital that plans to build a high-tech $140 million wood pellet plant in Millinocket
- Net-zero energy homes a growing Maine trend (5/13/14)
Rising fossil fuel prices and the falling cost of renewable energy spark an interest among Mainers.