Summary
It's time for a fresh start for Calais LNG. The company's bid to develop a terminal for importing liquefied natural gas along the St. Croix River is in limbo. But it is a self-imposed limbo, arrived at through requests to delay a Board of Environmental Protection hearing on the project. BEP would do well to tell Calais LNG to go back to the drawing board.
There are larger issues at stake - what strategies Maine employs to address declining sources of oil and gasoline and how it embraces emerging energy sources. Though it is important that these policies be sound, there is an urgency to the process. Even if the federal government charts a clear way forward, states will be competing as producers and handlers. Maine's challenge, as a likely exporter of electricity and pass-through for natural gas, will be to draw benefits from both.See the full content of this document
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Lng Clean Slate
The letters LNG first greeted Mainers in 2003 when a company proposed building a terminal in Harpswell. In a r...
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