Tux Turkel

Staff Writer

Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.

When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.

A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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Where there’s a mill … there’s a way

by Tux Turkel

Throw in the dowels? Not these investors, who believe that even in the midst of a tough economy, Maine’s once-vital woodworking plants can be retooled, reopened and made profitable all over again

GREENWOOD – Time is frozen inside the Saunders Brothers mill here. Resting on a stack of maple dowels is a sales order from last March for 1,392 rolling pins. Some of the dowels are sanded and polished, stacked where workers left them five months ago, when the factory suddenly closed and put 55 local residents on the street.

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LNG developer gets more time

by Tux Turkel

The Maine Board of Environmental Protection has decided to give a developer more time to try to line up financing and gather technical information for a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Calais. In a letter today to Calais LNG, the board’s chair, Susan Lessard, said she would place the company’s permit application on hold […]

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TD Bank puts a new twist on banker’s hours

by Tux Turkel

PORTLAND – It’s only 8 a.m., and Donna Stevens is already on her second visit to TD Bank’s branch at Northgate. After cashing a check at the drive-up window, she decided to walk into the lobby to use the ATM.

Stevens, who lives nearby, said she likes to do her banking early, while her family is still in bed. She also visits the bank on Sundays.

“The hours are so nice, I can do everything I need to do,” she said.

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