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- Dixfield selectmen approve warrant for town meeting on wind energy moratorium (7/28/14)
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen voted 4-1 Monday evening to approve a warrant for a special town meeting where residents will vote on whether to enact a 180-day wind energy facility moratorium.
- Members of Congress Worry Propane Rail Shipments Could Harm Great Bay (7/24/14)
Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte along with Congresswoman Carol-Shea Porter want to take a closer look at the potential environmental impacts of propane rail traffic through the Great Bay Estuary.
- 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.
- Wind farm company reps met by small army of protestors (7/17/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Well in excess of 100 sign-carrying opponents of wind power from five local towns lined the road in protest when the project developer and attorney for EDP Renewables arrived July 15
- PSNH, forest society executives continue to seek Northern Pass deal (6/9/14)
The new president of Public Service of New Hampshire and senior executives with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests have been meeting privately, hoping to break the impasse over the Northern Pass hydroelectric project, but that has yet to garner meaningful results.
- Plymouth residents want tougher odor limits placed on sludge processing plant (7/25/14)
NEWPORT — People who live near Soil Preparation Inc., a controversial sludge processing plant in Plymouth, are upset with new draft odor limits set by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that are six times higher than initially proposed.
- Lister waiting on response from Hassan regarding Sea-3 (7/23/14)
PORTSMOUTH — Mayor Bob Lister is tired of waiting for a response from Gov. Maggie Hassan's office to a request he made in a June 18 letter sharing his concerns about the expansion of the Sea-3 propane facility in Newington.
- Guilford committee talks limits on bulk propane storage (7/22/14)
GUILFORD >> The Planning Committee continued its discussion of a possible limit on bulk storage of propane in town on Tuesday at Town Hall.
Members of the committee discussed how it should address propane rules in town and said they would review how other towns regulate the product.
- Eastern Canadian Premiers And New England Governors Meet Amid Energy Protests (7/14/14)
New Hampshire is hosting the latest summit between the governors of the New England states and the Premiers of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. The conference takes place Monday at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, and follows a similar meeting held in Quebec last September.
- Plug pulled on $150M wind farm over unfriendly political, regulatory climate (5/27/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Spanish wind-energy giant Iberdrola Renewables said Tuesday it is abandoning efforts to build the Wild Meadows wind farm in the Newfound Lake/Cardigan Mountain area.