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Energy & Utilities

  • Southern Maine to feel natural gas price sting

    February 26, 2014

    As the big chill continues to cross the nation, its impact is about to hit southern Maine in the form of natural gas price hikes, according to the

    February 26, 2014

  • Northern Penobscot Tech launching natural-gas course

    February 25, 2014

    Northern Penobscot Tech, a vocational school in Lincoln, plans to launch an adult-education course to train natural gas pipeline technicians in April, partly as an effort to provide work opportunities for recently laid-off mill workers.

    February 25, 2014

  • Battle over CMP's rate proposal pits profits against renewable advocates

    James McCarthy February 24, 2014

    Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, has spent the better part of three years pitching Brunswick Landing as the epicenter of an emerging clean energy market in Maine and is nearly ready to seal a dea

    James McCarthy February 24, 2014

  • First Wind strikes deal with opponents in Bingham

    February 19, 2014

    A group of nonprofit organizations representing the Appalachian Trail has dropped its opposition to a proposed 62-turbine wind farm in Bingham after a subsidiary of the Boston-based First Wind agreed to create a $700,000 land conservation fu

    February 19, 2014

  • Mill restart plan includes selling hydropower

    February 13, 2014

    The owners of the idled Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket want to sell hydropower from Penobscot River dams owned by another company back to the power grid, opening a new revenue stream amid tough times.

    February 13, 2014

  • Spectra wants to reverse N.S.-Boston pipeline

    February 12, 2014

    The primary owner of the Maritimes & Northeast natural gas pipeline wants to reverse the direction of its Nova Scotia-to-Boston pipeline, sending gas north from the massive shale deposits producing natural gas in Pennsylvania and New Yor

    February 12, 2014

  • Heating oil price continues to rise

    February 10, 2014

    The spot price of a gallon of heating oil continued to rise last week to $3.89 per gallon, nearly 36 cents higher than one year ago. Around 70% of Maine homes used No. 2 heating oil as of a 2012 American Community Survey estimate.

    February 10, 2014

  • Gorham research co. helps handle contaminants in Mexican resort region

    Tina Fischer February 10, 2014

    Deep in a Maine winter freeze, it's easy to understand the allure of Mexican resorts towns like Acapulco and Ixtapa. But for one Gorham-based research organization, the connection to the Pacific resort communities is all business.

    Tina Fischer February 10, 2014

  • Bangor Gas parent co. activates part of Loring line

    February 7, 2014

    The Ohio-based Gas Natural Inc., parent of Bangor Gas Co., announced Thursday it has activated the first 60 miles of its Searsport-to-Limestone Loring Pipeline, a liquid pipeline the company is converting to transport natural gas.

    February 7, 2014

  • Casella ditches UMaine pipeline plan

    February 7, 2014

    Casella Waste Systems Inc. has ditched plans for a 7-mile methane gas pipeline from its Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town to the University of Maine, a project the university projected would save $15 million in heating costs over 20 years.

    February 7, 2014

  • DOE will release alternative Northern Pass routes

    February 6, 2014

    The U.S. Department of Energy said it plans to reveal by the end of this year possible routes for the Northern Pass electrical transmission project that would provide a conduit for Canadian hydropower to reach New England.

    February 6, 2014

  • New England power plant closures strain supply

    February 6, 2014

    Regional power grid operators have warned that the retirement of several power plants in New England is putting pressure on the power supply and driving up prices.

    February 6, 2014

  • PUC tempers Unitil rate hike request

    February 5, 2014

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission has approved a rate hike for natural gas customers of Unitil Corp., but at about two-thirds the amount the company requested.

    February 5, 2014

  • DEP to resume Bingham wind farm review

    February 3, 2014

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is scheduled to resume review this month of a proposal by a subsidiary of the Massachusetts-based First Wind for a 62-turbine wind farm in Bingham.

    February 3, 2014

  • MM&A Railway sues crude oil owners

    February 3, 2014

    The bankruptcy trustee for the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has filed a lawsuit against the owner and shipment coordinator for the crude oil aboard the train that derailed in the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last July in an accide

    February 3, 2014

  • Cost goes up for Augusta Civic Center gas conversion

    January 28, 2014

    The city of Augusta faces a cost of between $150,000 to $250,000 to convert the Augusta Civic Center from propane to natural gas.

    January 28, 2014

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Does cruise ship season help your business?
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Maine's cruise ship season is in full swing, running from late September through early November. Thousands of passengers are expected to visit Portland, Bar Harbor, Eastport or Rockland.

This week alone, Portland is set to welcome around 16,000 cruise ship passengers.

But as the season ramps up, it's bringing mixed reviews. Some locals brace for the crowds and many business owners say cruise ship visitors don't spend much while in the port. Other business owners argue that, even if cruise ships don't benefit their own coffers, they still benefit the overall economy.

When we asked this question in 2023, Mainebiz respondents, 21% said the visits bring customers and revenue, while only 18% said the visits don't help their business.

More than half of the respondents, 53%, said cruise ships benefit the overall economy.

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