Critics Pan Vt. Renewable Energy Siting Bill
Montpelier — Critics of Vermont’s process for selecting sites for renewable energy projects say they’re unhappy with legislation working its way through the Senate that is designed to give towns and regional planning commissions greater say in where solar and wind power projects go. About 60 members of the groups Energy Transformation Coalition and Energize Vermont gathered Tuesday for a news conference where leaders said Senate Bill...
TransCanada Trying to Flip Power Plant
Six weeks ago, TransCanada Corp. closed a deal to buy a power plant in Pennsylvania. On Thursday, the company put it back up for sale. The 704-megawatt Ironwood natural gas-fired power complex that TransCanada bought for $657 million from Talen Energy Corp. is back on the block as the company looks for ways to finance another acquisition worth 15 times more, the company said Thursday. In fact, the company’s putting a whole set of U.S....
Vermonter Out as Beer Spokesman
Can the second Most Interesting Man in the World really be as interesting as the first? Dos Equis is sending the advertising character that sent its sales into the stratosphere over the last nine years on a rocket to Mars in its latest commercial, introduced last week. It is billed as a one-way trip, which by definition will make the Most Interesting Man, played until now by Jonathan Goldsmith, no longer the most interesting man in...
Regulators Approve APD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock ‘Affiliation’
Lebanon — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock, two health care organizations with long histories in the Upper Valley, have formalized a relationship that will give D-H, a teaching hospital with a regional footprint, the final say over key matters at its smaller neighbor. The new relationship, which the parties have labeled an “affiliation,” took effect Tuesday after the Charitable Trusts Unit and the Consumer...
Hunting for Primary’s Dollar Impact
Concord — If there’s any place where spending attributable to the presidential primary will show up, it’s in the revenue reports used to calculate the state’s meals and rooms tax. The Monitor checked the revenue reported by hotels, motels and eateries throughout Merrimack County for the months surrounding the 2012 and 2008 primaries. Not enough data is available yet to analyze this year’s primary, as you might expect. Specifically,...
