AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling on President Donald Trump to leave Maine out of offshore oil and gas drilling. The Maine House unanimously passed the resolution Thursday. Opponents of offshore drilling in the Legislature say drilling and exploration off Maine’s coast would endanger commercial fishing jobs. The […]
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Paul LePage says drilling off Maine coast would lower prices
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage says drilling for oil in waters off the state’s coast could increase energy independence and provide more heating oil for Mainers. LePage in a Maine Public interview on Tuesday said the state has recently weathered a cold snap and severe shortages in petroleum products. President Donald Trump’s […]
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Donald Trump may allow offshore drilling off Maine coast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades. The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil […]
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Feds approve oil exploration off US Eastern Coast
ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. — The Obama administration has sided with energy developers over environmentalists, approving the use of underwater blasts of sound to pinpoint oil and gas deposits in federal Atlantic Ocean waters. The regulatory decision is the first real step toward what could be an economic transformation in East Coast states, potentially creating […]
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Biddeford manufacturer to close, lay off 40 workers
BIDDEFORD — A Maine company that only a few years ago was named one of the country’s fastest growing manufacturers has laid off 40 workers and will be closing its doors after 34 years in the business, according to a recent document filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. Flotation Technologies, founded in Biddeford in […]