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- LePage plan could give dormant dams new life (7/29/14)
The LePage administration is looking anew at Maine’s old dams, mills and hydropower facilities as a way to increase electricity generation. The Governor’s Energy Office wants to hire a consultant to inventory the state’s hydro-electric facilities – both large and small – and recommend regulatory changes to encourage expansion.
- Berlin seeks funds for legal appeal against hydro plants (4/30/14)
BERLIN — The Coos County delegation will consider whether to give Berlin $15,000 from the county’s utility-defense fund to help pay legal bills in an assessment dispute with the owner of three hydroelectric dams on the Androscoggin River.
- Berlin requests county funds to assist in dispute over hydro assessment (4/15/14)
BERLIN – The city of Berlin has requested $15,000 from Coos County to help cover its legal costs in its dispute with Great Lakes Hydro America over the assessment of hydroelectric facilities on the Androscoggin River.
- After missed deadlines, Maine dam relicensing bill gains support (3/25/14)
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection would be required to notify lawmakers when hydropower licenses are up for renewal
- Hydro dispute may test state role in private business deals (3/17/14)
A pending bill would force the owner of hydroelectric dams to hand over a portion of its profits to the owner of a paper mill.
- Here’s why a Canadian hydropower company is betting on Massachusetts (5/6/14)
Nalcor Energy’s proposed Gull Island power plant would be more than 1,000 miles away from Boston. But Nalcor executives believe the site is well-positioned to help keep the lights on in New England’s densest population hub.
- Parties try new strategies in battle over idled Maine paper mill (4/24/14)
Cate Street Capital and Brookfield Renewable turn to new public relations approaches to express their positions on the Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket.
- Hydropower plan is raising alarms (4/7/14)
Proposed state legislation that would bring large amounts of hydropower to Massachusetts from Canada could crash the regional power market and kill off other needed energy-generating resources, according to some environmental advocates.
- New England seeking to tap Canadian hydropower (3/25/14)
A 300-mile power cable line would be buried on land and run underwater from Maine to Boston in a proposal to tap Canada's hydropower for power-hungry southern New England.
- Idled Maine paper mill seeks portion of energy firm’s boosted profits (3/8/14)
A power company and the owner of an idle paper mill in East Millinocket are doing battle in private conference rooms and at the State House, where a bill has been introduced to force the power company to share its profits with the mill’s owner