I had a great time at yesterday's Focus the Nation event at Northern Maine Community College. I was honored to be among great speakers and experts on renewable energy and other energy issues. Thanks to all who were involved.
In the meantime, a news story has broken about the Kennebec Valley Gas Company's plans to build a $70 million 56-mile natural gas pipeline running through 12 communities from Richmond to Madison by 2013. As I've noted before, natural gas can be an inexpensive energy source compared to oil, a condition that some experts (like the U.S. Energy Information Administration) believe will continue for the next 15 or more years. For a fossil fuel, generating electricity from natural gas using modern technologies can also have relatively fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, NOx and SOx per kilowatt-hour generated than other alternatives like oil or coal. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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