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Links tagged “public opposition”
- Connecticut moratorium stalls wind power proposal (3/29/14)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As Connecticut moves on several fronts to diversify its supply of energy, proposals for wind power have stalled as state lawmakers struggle to reach agreement on rules for turbine locations, shadows created by spinning blades and other details.
- Guilty conviction for Pilgrim protesters won’t quiet questions about plant’s future (3/23/14)
The Cape Downwinders trial may be over, but the stressful relationship between the Pilgrim nuclear reactor’s owner and its critics on Cape Cod won’t be healed anytime soon.
- Voters in Washington County town approve wind power moratorium (3/19/14)
COLUMBIA, Maine — Town officials will be developing an ordinance to regulate wind energy projects after residents voted Monday to impose a six-month moratorium on such projects
- 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.
- PUC (ME) ponders what’s next for wind deal vacated by court (3/24/14)
What happens to a multimillion dollar energy deal when the state’s highest court says the Maine agency that approved the deal was wrong?
- Northern Pass Foes Launch Petition Drive Seeking Hassan’s Help (3/20/14)
Northern Pass opponents are hoping a 7-year-old boy on YouTube will prompt people to sign a petition asking Gov. Hassan to fight harder against the project
- Portuguese firm’s wind-speed tower request creates concern (3/10/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Opponents are crying foul as a Portuguese company seeks to build a tower to measure wind speeds for its proposed Spruce Ridge Wind Farm in four towns near Newfound Lake and Mount Cardigan.
- 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.