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Environmental groups critical of Plum Creek and Maine regulators
February 10, 2009 by Susan Sharon in Maine Public Broadcasting Network
February 10, 2009 by Susan Sharon in Maine Public Broadcasting Network
This time the focus is Kibby Mountain in western Maine where Transcanada is in the process of developing a wind power project, and where related logging operations by Plum Creek and a sub-contractor have been linked to serious land use violations. Pictures taken at the site by an independent engineering firm and provided to the Land Use Regulation Commission in late October show a logging road so damaged by rain, logging activity and erosion that it created a mudslide described as nearly 900 feet long.
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Seven Northeastern States Set Greenhouse Gas Limits
August 16, 2006 by Christopher Martin in Bloomberg
August 16, 2006 by Christopher Martin in Bloomberg
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- New York, New Jersey and five other Northeast states set a goal of cutting power-plant carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent over 10 years to help curb global warming.
BREWER - As wind power begins to blow into Maine, state regulators on Wednesday considered its potential to squeeze increasingly expensive - and less environmentally friendly - fossil fuels out of the region's energy mix.