Study: Region Doesn’t Need More Natural Gas
Boston — The New England region does not need additional natural gas pipelines to maintain a reliable flow of energy for the next 15 years, according to a study commissioned by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and released Wednesday. The report concludes that the region will be able to meet electricity needs through 2030, even on the coldest of winter days, “with or without electric ratepayer investment in new natural gas...
Governor Talks Energy in Lebanon
West Lebanon — Gov. Maggie Hassan struck a cautious note last week about the prospect of energy projects in the state by saying the benefits of lowering the cost of energy by increasing the supply in the region must be balanced environmental concerns raised by those projects. Hassan, addressing a joint lunch sponsored by the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce and the Lebanon Rotary Club, acknowledged that “we need to increase the supply...
Hormel agrees to buy organic and natural meat maker Applegate Farms
Hormel to Buy Organic and Natural Meat Maker Applegate Farms Minneapolis — Hormel Foods has agreed to buy Applegate Farms, a leading organic and natural meat maker, for $775 million, its largest acquisition and a big play in the hot organic food market. The buyout of Bridgefield, N.J.-based Applegate is also the latest of three major deals for Hormel over the past two years, as the packaged food company, based about 100 miles south of...
Consumer Confidential: Is Organic Food Worth the Higher Price? Many Experts Say No
Kristin DiMarco was heading into a Trader Joe’s in West Los Angeles the other day and knew for sure what she wouldn’t be buying: anything organic. “I just feel like I’ve already built up an immunity to anything that might be in my food,” the 26-year-old told me. Besides, she said, why would she want to pay a markup that can run double or triple the cost of conventional food? “I don’t think there’s a big-enough difference in quality to...
Pipeline proposals resisted in NE, despite region’s high energy costs
CONCORD, N.H. — There is near universal agreement that the Northeast has to expand its energy supply to rein in the nation’s highest costs and that cheap, abundant, relatively clean natural gas could be at least a short-term answer. But heels dig deep when it comes to those thorniest of questions: how and where? Proposals to build or expand natural gas pipelines are met with an upswell of citizen discontent. At the end of last year, a...
