USM professor Charles Colgan advocates public policies that will make oil more expensive.
Tux Turkel
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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Northeast officials discuss energy future, economy
Development of a green economy is in its infancy now, similar to where information technology was more than 40 years ago, according to Charles Colgan, a professor at USM.
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Maine can learn by numbers in province
New Brunswick’s growing population is worth a look, the Maine Development Foundation’s CEO says.
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Foreigners find a home in the great white north
New Brunswick, facing the erosion of its population and tax base, opens its arms to immigrants.
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Incentives drive up energy audits
Cash offers and deadlines create unusually high summer demand for home weatherizing services.
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Calais LNG granted third hearing postponement
Maine Board of Environmental Protection grants the company attempting to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Calais another month to find a new investor.
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Panel gets clear message: Rid Maine of nuclear waste
Federal commission members visit the defunct Maine Yankee site in its search for a solution.
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Calais LNG again asks to postpone permit hearing
A lawyer representing the company sends a letter to the Maine Board of Environmental Protection saying it needs until Sept. 11 to line up a financial backer.
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Federal panel tours Wiscasset nuclear site
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future is trying to figure out what to do with highly radioactive fuel rods left over from Maine Yankee’s decommissioning.
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Maine loses a ‘visionary’ on energy alternatives
Matthew Simmons, who founded the Ocean Energy Institute and embraced Maine, dies unexpectedly.