Energy News Roundup: August 6-August 12

This week in regional energy news …

• The Loring Development Authority in Limestone, Maine, is embarking on an expansion project that includes the installation of new sources of cleaner power, and the removal of old ones, including an implosion of an old heat plant tomorrow.
• In rural Nova Scotia, LST Energy considers hay as a possible new renewable biofuel.
• A legislative report on the Maine Green Energy Alliance finds no fault with the group’s spending or hiring, but a senator says the report itself may have been leaked improperly.
• Construction of the Northern Pass, a transmission project that will run power from Hydro-Quebec into New England through New Hampshire, will begin in 2014.
• The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future is advocating that the U.S. DOE remove nuclear waste from Connecticut, and other states, posthaste.  Connecticut has 1,350 metric tons of spent uranium in Waterford and another 412 metric tons in Haddam.