Business & Development

Harnessing the mega tides of the Fundy region to generate electricity is hardly a new idea. But submerging "windmills" and using the tidal stream rather than air currents to push the blades around is a recent technology -- one that the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)...

A new proposal has been added to the list of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects put forward for Washington County, this one a combined tidal power plant and LNG terminal at the Navy antenna station in Cutler.

Governor John Baldacci came to Washington County on April 22 in his role as cheerleader-in-chief for Maine business.

At the recent Northeast Farmed Fish Health Management Workshop, Glenn Cooke, CEO of Cooke Aquaculture, laid down a challenge for the salmon farming industry, fish health researchers and government, stating, "We cannot manage ISA; it can and must be eliminated."

Liquefied natural gas agreements between developers and municipalities vary from project to project. The incentives offered range from financial deals to planting trees, establishing parks to building a recycling plant for sediments.

Because of recent contract awards and expected awards, Creative Apparel will be bringing back laid-off stitching personnel at all of its plants in Maine, including the company's Eastport facility.