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My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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Tag Archives: University of Maine
Shallow Labor Pool | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Education and Schools, Law and Order, Maine, Politics and government
Tagged Advancing Maine Conference, Center for Workforce Research and Information, Economy, education, globalization, labor force, labor pool, Maine, Maine Department of Labor, policy makers, recession, technological change, University of Maine, workers
Mainers go to Gulf with helpful tools, run into obstacles | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Posted in Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors, Politics and government
Tagged booms, BP, environmental disaster, EPA, Gov. John Baldacci, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, optical spectroscopic techniques, Orono Spectral Solutions Inc., Packgen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, UMaine, University of Maine
State point man on offshore wind clearly energized | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Posted in Economy, Education and Schools, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged Advanced Structures and Composites Center, DeepCwind Consortium, Economy, Energy, Environment, Gov. John Baldacci, Habib Dagher, Maine, offshore wind, Sen. Susan Collins, Statoil, turbines, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, University of Maine, wind energy, wind power, windmills
Bond targets wind project, energy upgrades | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Bond targets wind project, energy upgrades | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Will birds and wind farms compete? | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Posted in Economy, Education and Schools, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged BioDiversity Research Institute, bond, ducks, electronic tracking, fuel oil, Gov. John Baldacci, jobs, Maine, Maine Heritage Policy Center, Maine Maritime Academy, migration, offshore wind power, Orono, Question 2, University of Maine, wind power
US energy secretary to visit UMaine wind program | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors, Politics and government
Tagged Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, Gov. John Baldacci, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Nobel Prize for Physics, offshore wind energy, Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology, Sen. Susan Collins, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, University of California, University of Maine
Bucksport shaken by earthquake | Bangor Daily News
[I should have known that just as soon as I posted a link to a story about the earthquake that I would find something with far more detail. Here you go. — KM]
Maine Black Bears advance to league final | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Maine
Tagged Boston College, hockey, Hockey East championship, UMaine, University of Maine
Landfill gas would heat UM – Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged Biddeford, carbon dioxide emissions, Casella Waste Management, federal stimulus funding, Juniper Ridge Landfill, landfill, landfill gas, landfill gas-to-energy project, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Green Energy Alliance, methane gas, Old Town, Orono campus, Pine Tree Landfill, Saco, University of Maine, Westbrook
Presque Isle, Houlton benefit from energy conversion grant – Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Politics and government
Tagged American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Aroostook County, conservation, Energy, federal grant, Gov. John Baldacci, Houlton, Maine Department of Conservation, Maine Economic Improvement Fund, Maine Forest Service, oil boiler, pellet boiler, Presque Isle, University of Maine, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, wood chip boiler
Salting roads before snow may save lives – Bangor Daily News
Salting roads before snow may save lives – Bangor Daily News.
To read the report, go to www.umaine.edu/files/2010/02/Winter-Road-Maint-Final.pdf
Posted in Environment, Maine, Outdoors, Politics and government
Tagged AAA Northern New England, accident rates, accidents, anti-icing, “Maine Winter Roads”, crashes, de-icing, drivers, Environment, fatal crashes, fatalities, highways, ice, icing, lower corrosion rates, Maine Department of Transportation, Maine DOT, Maine Turnpike Authority, road conditions, road maintenance, roads, rock salt, safety, salting, salting roads, School of Economics, Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, slush, snow, snowing, turnpike, University of Maine, University of Maine professor Jonathan Rubin, University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, winter, winter weather, wrecks
University of Maine lands $12.4 million grant for wind research
(Here’s the top of a story by the Bangor Daily News’ Jessica Bloch on a significant grant to help in the research of offshore wind in Maine. There is a link at the bottom of this entry to the rest of the story. — KM)
By Jessica Bloch
Bangor Daily News, Jan. 8, 2010
ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine’s offshore wind testing efforts got a huge boost Friday from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which announced it had awarded $12.4 million for construction costs for the Advanced Nanocomposites in Renewable Energy Laboratory (ANREL) at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, said the grant may be the largest ever awarded UMaine for a laboratory research building.
“This is exciting news for the whole state,” Dagher said Friday morning. “… It’s going to allow us to truly strengthen our leadership role in the area of offshore wind. Without this research facility, we can’t do the research we need to do.”
The grant will be officially announced Friday afternoon at a press conference on the UMaine campus.
Here’s a link to the rest of the story.
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