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- As natural gas companies snatch up customers, oil providers offer ways to reduce bills (10/30/13)
BANGOR — With the winter freeze approaching, natural gas companies are scrambling to hook up their last new customers of 2013, while Maine oil and propane dealers are trying to give their users money-saving options in hopes they won’t convert.
- More Maine homeowners use propane for heating fuel (10/27/13)
(AP) As prices become more competitive, Maine homeowners are increasingly turning away from oil as their primary heating source and using propane instead.
- Oil and gas to maintain key roles in New England energy picture (10/24/13)
PORTLAND - An industry analyst tells a Portland audience that gasoline, diesel fuel and home heating oil will continue to be in high demand for decades. Total energy use in the United States will grow by 10 percent by 2040, an analyst from the American Petroleum Institute said Thursday in Portland.
- Portland Pipe Line gives up permit it would need for tar sands oil (10/18/13)
Portland Pipe Line Corp. has surrendered a permit it would have needed to reverse the flow of its 236-mile underground pipeline and bring in so-called tar sands oil from Canada to South Portland’s waterfront.
- Five on S. Portland council reject oil initiative
SOUTH PORTLAND — Five city councilors announced Monday their opposition to the Waterfront Protection Ordinance, the controversial citizen initiative meant to ban the potential handling of so-called Canadian tar sands petroleum at oil terminals in South Portland.
- New biomass boiler and lobby upgrade underway at AVH (10/30/13)
BERLIN – It's a busy time at Androscoggin Valley Hospital with a new $2.8 million biomass boiler under construction and a major upgrade of the front lobby in progress. Currently, the hospital burns 135,000 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil annually. The biomass plant will save the hospital an estimated $350,000 annually in heating costs, which McMann pointed out means the plant will pay for itself in eight years
- Oil interests spend $600,000 in South Portland campaign (10/26/13)
The dueling campaigns over the Waterfront Protection Ordinance are on track to be among the most costly local referendums in recent history.
- Tar sands remains sticky wicket in South Portland (10/21/13)
High-flying rhetoric, myriad press events and dramatic pronouncements have been the hallmark of the campaign for the Waterfront Protection Ordinance.
- Burden sharing in sale of fossil-fuel plants getting hard look by state (10/16/13)
CONCORD — A legislative oversight committee wants state regulators to determine if Public Service of New Hampshire electric users would benefit from the sale of the utility’s fossil-fuel burning generating plants.
- In South Portland campaign, oil allies outspend opponents 10-1 (10/8/13)
Petroleum-handling companies and their allies in South Portland have donated tens of thousands of dollars to defeat the contentious Waterfront Protection Ordinance on the Nov. 5 ballot, raising nearly 10 times as much money as their opponents.