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- National Grid project will route lines through northern R.I. (3/10/14)
PROVIDENCE – National Grid will begin work this month on the Rhode Island segments of the Interstate Reliability Project, a multimillion dollar effort to improve New England’s electricity transmission system.
- Vermont homeowners concerned about pipeline (3/7/14)
MONTPELIER — Monkton homeowner Maren Vasatka was among several Vermonters who received notice from Vermont Gas recently about the potential use of eminent domain to make way for a natural gas line. And she’s not happy about it.
- Columbia Gas rate hike is the latest sign of New England’s pipeline constraints (3/3/14)
The ripple effects from New England’s position at the end of the pipeline continue to add up — and natural gas customers won’t be happy about this math.
- Northern Penobscot Tech developing natural-gas course to help laid-off paper workers (2/24/14)
LINCOLN — Displaced paper mill workers are among those who can learn to install and service natural gas and propane lines and burners under an adult-education class being developed at Northern Penobscot Tech, officials said Monday
- Mass. gives green light to gas-fired power plant (2/20/14)
SALEM — Massachusetts environmental officials have signed off on all the state and local permits and approvals needed for construction of a proposed 692-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant at the site of the existing Salem Harbor Station.
- Massachusetts energy company plans Groveton plant (3/8/14)
CONCORD, N.H. — A proposal to convert part of a shuttered North Country paper mill into a transfer station for natural gas could create more than 80 jobs and cut the town of Groveton's tax bills in half.
- 3 towns say ‘no’ to Vermont Gas pipeline idea (3/4/14)
CORNWALL — Voters in the towns of Cornwall, Shoreham and Monkton are saying “no” to a plan by Vermont Gas to extend a natural gas pipeline through their communities
- Small Vermont businesses tout alternatives to gas pipeline (2/25/14)
MIDDLEBURY — Enduring benefits of renewable energy outweigh the short-term boom that a natural gas pipeline offers Addison County businesses, Larry Plesant, CEO of Vermont Soap Works, said Tuesday morning.
- State eminent domain laws tip balance toward Vt. Gas (2/24/14)
ADDISON COUNTY — If Vermont Gas Systems does move forward with eminent domain proceedings against Addison County landowners to secure necessary easements to build its proposed natural gas pipeline, it will have both state statute and recent precedents on its side
- Madison residents, businesses anticipate arrival of natural gas (2/20/14)
MADISON — Natural gas is expected to flow to Madison Paper Industries within three weeks, while some residents could have access to natural gas for heating their homes by this spring, according to Summit Natural Gas and Madison Paper Industries officials