February 3, 2008

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January 31, 2008

Constellation's options on whether to site first new EPR in Maryland or New York was front page news in both states today:

This is from the front page of today's The Sun, of Baltimore, Maryland.

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This is from the front page of today's The Post-Standard, of Syracuse, New York.

January 29, 2008

* Maryland - mountaintop wind farm plan -- 40-story turbines on 400 acres -- opposed by local citizens

October 8, 2006

Contrast Sen. Mikulski's position on siting jail in Maryland with her position on sticking Nevada with nuclear waste (including, BTW, spent fuel from Maryland nuclear power plant)

Today's issue of The Washington Post has a story in Metro section about space crunch in Maryland jails. The article ends with a quote from Sen. Mikulski: "I am opposed to putting a prison in any Maryland community who does not want it."

January 21, 2006

* The harness racing season begins tonight at Rosecroft here in Maryland. "Nuclear Folks" is a horse running in the 9th race. The morning paper listed 3-1 odds. Online bets for Rosecroft via the racebook at SPORTSBETTING.COM

November 3, 2005

* Baltimore-based simulator vendor GSE anticipates global renaissance in nuclear power

May 4, 2005

* Status of Maryland's Regs re NRC Agreement State program

March 15, 2004

* Maryland - dump truck ran over 50 mCi gauge; no leakage

February 19, 2004

* Maryland - 10mCi tritium suspected to have been buried with incinerator ash

August 13, 2003

In Maryland, thousands of consumers who thought they had locked into long-term, fixed-price natural gas contracts with alternative companies were stunned this spring when, one by one, the firms backed out of the deals and sent them back to their old gas utilities--and higher prices.

[Source: Marianne Lavelle, "Some Therapy For Electric Bill Shock", U.S. News & World Report, August 18, 2003]

July 26, 2003

Welcome, LNG tankers, sez Calvert County on Chesapeake Bay

The big energy news here in Maryland today is the first liquified natural gas tanker docking at Cove Point in more than twenty years. The 22-million gallons of LNG carried by the 820-foot-long ship, the Norwegian-flagged Norman Lady, represents enough energy to power 10 million homes for a day. Cove Point owner, Dominion, expects a new tanker to arrive every ten days at first, eventually reaching one every four days. Cove Point has enough pipeline capacity to send out the Norman Lady's cargo in about three days. With natural gas prices unseasonably high, and no prospects for lowering in sight, Cove Point is coming on line at a great time, business-wise. There's only three other import-capable LNG ports in the US. Dominion's chairman and chief executive, Tom Capps, said he expects Cove Point to become the biggest LNG facility in the US, moving a billion cubic feet of gas every day. Calvert County expects Cove Point to pay about $2.5-million a year in county taxes.

Refs: Dan Thanh Dang (Sun Staff), "First LNG load arrives", Baltimore Sun, July 26, 2003
Raymond McCaffrey (Wash Post staff writer), "First Tanker in 23 Years Docks at Cove Point; Security Fears Linger as Liquefied Gas Shipments Cruise Near Nuclear Power Plant", Juy 26, 2003, p. B3