As you can see from this picture, we do have a problem with collecting and disposing of garbage at the Main Beach during the peak of the tourist season. Maybe we should be looking at the Big Belly solution we presented months back? Please see the article covering the Big Belly solution at BIG BELLY […]
Author: dnosnik
Utilities in Maine cannot use your dollars to pay for lobbyists
As more fully described by David Pomerantz in his guest essay in The New York Times, three states in the nation have passed laws forbidding utilities to use ratepayers’ money to cover lobbying costs. The bad news, 47 have not. Mr. Pomerantz is the executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute, a utility watchdog […]
Can you imagine Ogunquit WITHOUT a beach?
By David Nosnik, CPA, reprinted from the July issue of “Sea you in Ogunquit.” You better continue reading because if we are not careful, it may just happen. Ogunquit is highly susceptible to beach erosion. Factors such as storms, tides, and natural processes contribute to changes in the beach profiles over time as you can […]
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Big Belly for Ogunquit?
During our April’s meeting we heard a presentation from Big Belly, the waste recycling system. The following are benefits from installing their systems, according to their literature: Bigbelly Smart Waste & Recycling System Benefits 1701 The Bigbelly Smart Waste & Recycling System provides total waste containment and remote real-time visibility into the entire waste operation […]
Charging outside the home is the Achilles heel of the EV industry
This is what Aaron Pressman writes in the Boston Globe. EV charging infrastructure has been expanding rapidly in recent years, with more public charging stations being installed in cities, along highways, and at other convenient locations. Many governments and private companies are investing heavily in building out charging networks to support the growing number of […]
Ogunquit gets a $32,000 award to purchase an electric vehicle charger
The Town of Ogunquit was awarded an incentive award for $32,000 or 90% of the final project costs, whichever is less, to install and operate Level 2chargers at Obed’s Parking Lot, Cottage Street. This project will provide the town its first 4 outlets (two per charger) for the charging of electric vehicles owned and operarted […]
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Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet?
That is the title of Adam Gopnik’s article in the Feberuary 27, 2023 issue of the New Yorker Magazine. Aacording to Sweedish ecologist Johan Eklof, most churches in southwest Sweden had bat colonies back in the nineteen-eighties, and now most of them don’t. Light pollution, his research suggests, has been a major culprit. READ MORE […]