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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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Explosion shakes Canadian Irving refinery, which supplies much of Maine
No one died, but Canadian media reports showed flames and billowing black smoke coming from the refinery.
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CMP says ‘inadvertent security lapse’ released data on more than 77,000 customers
The company says human error led to old account information being exposed on a server. The incident has sparked an effort by utility officials to mandate reporting of any data exposures.
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Portland hub monitors 425 solar projects, 6 wind farms
Longroad Energy Partners’ dozen technicians staff the remote operations center around the clock.
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Energy firm sees Portland as logical site
It plans three projects in Maine, and partly staffs the downtown hub with Maine Maritime graduates.
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Regulators find CMP, Emera responded ‘reasonably’ to intense October windstorm
The PUC rules the utilities took proper actions based on the weather forecasts, but need to improve how they keep customers informed about outages and efforts to restore power.
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Dark money and blurred alliances drum up resistance to CMP power line project
An unusual mix of opponents, one of them quite secretive, is working at a grass-roots level to block a proposed 145-mile power line through Maine, even though it’s not on any ballot.
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PUC delays next week’s hearings on CMP’s proposed transmission line project
The complexity, heavy interest and other issues force postponement of the sessions for at least six more weeks.
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An epic voyage covers 310 miles of coastline in 13 hours
The trip, intended to highlight the Maine Island Trail, set a marine record.
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Newspapers praise decision nullifying Trump’s get-tough tariffs on Canadian newsprint
A trade commission finds U.S. newsprint producers were not being hurt by the imports, as the U.S. had maintained, in a decision that could lower costs for U.S. publications.