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Petition for electric compressor station motor rejected WEYMOUTH — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection denied a citizens group petition to have an electric powered turbine at a compressor station in the Fore River Basin. DEP presiding officer Jane Rothchild said federal regulations don't support a "wholesale replacement" of the gas turbine by Algonquin Gas Transmission, the Enbridge subsidiary that runs the compressor station.  “A preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that a combustion turbine is a different design than an electric motor drive,” said the ...

QUINCY – Well, it's over.  2020, a year unlike any other, has come and gone. It unleashed a once-in-a-generation pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown, exacerbated by lockdowns aimed at protecting people as cases mounted. Gov. Charlie Baker and local politicians have called on the federal government for more help, which is on the way after President Donald Trump signed a second federal COVID-19 aid bill. As the death toll from COVID-19 in Massachusetts surpassed 12,000 this week and continues to climb, there is hope as the state starts to administer vaccines. The country has als...

Out of the way, little people — big energy project coming through Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston Globe Spotlight fellow Mike Stanton (”Brute lesson in power politics,” Page A1, Dec. 13). ...

The new gas pipeline compressor station was set to open this month, but now faces a full safety review.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File 2020 A controversial natural gas compressor station in Weymouth will not start pumping natural gas this week, as the operator had previously indicated, and the start date now depends on the resolution of a full safety review that is not expected until January. Max Bergeron, a spokesman for Enbridge, told the Globe last week that the company was planning to put the compressor station into operation this week, shipping gas north to Maine and Canada. On Wednesday,...

E-1 – Omitted E-2 – Cybersecurity Incentives (Docket No. RM21-3-000). Agenda item E-2 may be a new docket relating to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on Cybersecurity Incentives. The NOPR proceeding may expand and formalize the concepts outlined in a Commission staff white paper issued on June 18, 2020, which explored certain transmission incentive policy proposals designed to encourage utility spending on protocols that would ostensibly improve security and compliance with critical infrastructure protection requirements. E-3 – California Independent System Operator Corporation (...