Category: Maryland
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Pocomoke City Goes with 2.1 MW System from SunEdison
SunEdison Inc., the world’s largest renewable energy development company, today announced the completion of a 2.1 megawatt solar energy system that will supply electricity to Maryland’s Pocomoke City’s wastewater treatment plant via a 20 year power purchase agreement. These projects were on the TerraForm Power call right list and have beenRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Public Outcry Intensifies to Stop Cove Point LNG Export Facility
Dominion’s plan is to convert an existing import facility into an export facility and to pipe fracked gas …
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Which State Best Supports Its Locally Grown Foods?
The push for more people to buy and eat locally produced foods keeps growing, but which states are actually practicing what they preach? For the third consecutive year, Strolling of the Heifers answers that question with its 2014 Locavore Index. The rankings take the per-capita number of farmers markets, consumer-supported agriculture operations (CSAs) and food hubs into account, along…
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In Light of Washington LNG Explosion, Community Demands Answers to Cove Point Export Terminal Concerns
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility explosion that rocked a Plymouth, WA, community on Monday, March 31, has Lusby residents demanding answers about a proposed expansion that would enable the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas terminal to become an LNG export facility. The incident should also reignite debate on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s…
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4 Arrested at Cumberland Courthouse in Protest of Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Plan
A local Unitarian minister and three western Maryland residents were arrested just before Noon today outside the Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland for peacefully protesting Virginia-based Dominion Resources’ plan to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. [caption id="attachment_323617" align="alignnone" width="500"] Cove Point protest in Cumberland. All participants expressed…