Natural Resources

Spiced Pear donating proceeds from menu favorite to Gulf Coast restoration

Natural Resources 07/10/2010

This summer will certainly be remembered for the Gulf Coast oil spill. The environmental disaster which seems to have no end permeates virtually every...

BIGGER FISH: Julio Alvarado of Harbor Blue Seafood Inc. moves a 500-pound, blue-fin tuna into a refrigerator unit. /

Businesses eye federal, state incentives <br>to pay for switch to solar...

Natural Resources 07/10/2010

The conversation started with a friend on the sidelines of a youth soccer game. It ended with Gene Bergson applying for a grant to...

TESTING BEING DONE for the ocean Special Area Management Plan, such as being done here by the National Science Foundation vessel Endeavor, off the Block Island coast, has taken Coastal Resources Management Council Executive Director Grover Fugate away from his CRMC duties, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. /

NOAA tells CRMC it needs to fill 8 vacancies, increase fines...

Natural Resources 07/10/2010

The state agency charged with managing Rhode Island’s coastal lands needs more council members, better legal advice and a kinder relationship between its chairman...

LINE OF DEFENSE: Louisiana-based American Pollution Control Corp. deploys oil booms off the Alabama coast to contain the oil well leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The material for the booms is made by the Cooley Group. /

Gulf oil spill sparks boom at Cooley

Natural Resources 07/10/2010

In a typical year, the Cooley Group would churn out between 30,000 and 40,000 linear yards of a membrane the company calls Coolthane, a...

THE R.I. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION is considering motions to throw out the power purchase agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid, which it has been directed to review by recent legislation signed by Gov. Donald L. Carcieri. /

Key ruling by PUC on wind farm objections could come next...

Natural Resources 07/09/2010

WARWICK – The R.I. Public Utilities Commission could rule next week to continue a hearing on a proposed offshore wind farm or pause the...

A RENDERING of what the Cape Wind project would look like from Barnstable. Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked for cost and profit numbers from the project's developer. /

Coakley wants cost, profit information <br>to assess cost-effectiveness of Cape Wind

Natural Resources 07/09/2010

BOSTON – As the R.I. Public Utilities Commission begins its hearings on the latest version of the Deepwater Wind-National Grid power purchase agreement for...

GOV. DONALD L. CARCIERI criticized Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Patrick C. Lynch and the Conservation Law Foundation for opposing hearings on the latest incarnation of the Deepwater Wind-National Grid power purchase agreement. /

Carcieri blasts Lynch, CLF for opposing PUC hearing on Deepwater-NatGrid deal

Natural Resources 07/07/2010

PROVIDENCE – In a sharply worded statement Wednesday, Gov. Donald L. Carcieri blasted Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and the Conservation Law Foundation for...

Rocky Point access agreement reached by Warwick and SBA, will allow...

Natural Resources 07/07/2010

WARWICK – For the first time in 15 years, the public will have regular access to a slice of the old Rocky Point Amusement...

CLF, AG ask PUC to reject Deepwater power buying agreement hearing

Natural Resources 07/06/2010

(Updated, 5 p.m.) WARWICK – R.I. Attorney General Patrick Lynch and an environmental group want the R.I. Public Utilities Commission to stop a hearing key...