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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.
- New England on ‘high alert’ after Canadian pipeline reversal approved (3/7/14)
The decision has regional environmental groups raising the alarms, warning the industry is now one step closer to being able to transport tar sands and other corrosive crude oil from the west, through Ontario and Quebec, over the border into Vermont, and then to the Maine coast for export.
- At least 12 towns pass tar sands resolution (3/4/14)
At least 12 towns passed resolutions at their town meetings expressing concern over the transport of tar sands oil from Canada through Vermont.
- Opinion: Science shows crude from oil sands no riskier than conventional crude (3/3/14)
BRUNSWICK — Maine has endured a great deal of winter this winter. No one is more familiar with the challenges of winter weather than the 350 members of the Maine Energy Marketers Association, who work every day to ensure we all have dependable access to the energy we need to heat our homes and power our economy.
- 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.
- Canada approves eastward flow of oil, worrying some Mainers (3/7/14)
Canada’s National Energy Board announced Thursday it has approved the reversal of a pipeline that would bring oil sands from Alberta to a refinery in Montreal and closer to Maine.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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