Business & Development

After lying dormant for a couple of years, the plan for a wind energy project on Grand Manan has passed from one company, Eastern Wind Power of Quispamsis, N.B., to First Wind of Newton, Mass., which is expecting to begin construction at the site next year.

Quoddy Bay LNG is seeking another postponement of a pre-hearing conference before the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP).

While the New Brunswick government was announcing on June 27 a $3 million loan to Cooke Aquaculture, which will help in the firm's ongoing creation of 230 new jobs in the province, the company released publicly its decision to reopen the Machiasport processing plant in Maine by early next year.

The Calais LNG project team has received approval of its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to participate in FERC's pre-filing process. Under the pre-filing process, Calais LNG will submit detailed project planning, design and environmental data for FERC consideration.

A group supporting a liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposal in Robbinston has now registered a complaint against another company proposing to build an LNG facility.

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline is proposing another expansion of the capacity of the U.S. portion of its pipeline system to transport new natural gas supplies from EnCana Corporation's Deep Panuke off the coast of Nova Scotia to markets in the northeastern U.S.