The Maine Climate Council is collecting community feedback on the draft recommendations presented by the Working Groups for the update to their Maine Climate Plan. We're hoping that you take a few minutes over the next week or so to provide commentary - especially as it pertains to environment and energy.
E2Tech Sustaining Partner, Sevee & Maher Engineers, Inc. (SME) is excited to announce that Travis Carpenter, P.E., has joined the Cumberland-based civil and environmental engineering consulting firm as a senior geotechnical engineer.
Carpenter is a Maine-licensed professional engineer with nearly 30 years of geotechnical engineering experience with the investigation, design, and construction of projects involving brownfields redevelopment, environmental remediation, solid waste management, embankment dam rehabilitation, and new site development. His expertise includes shallow foundations, retaining walls, ground improvements, embankment stability and seepage analyses, riverbank and shoreline stabilization, geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring, and earthwork construction.
The Maine Governor’s Energy Office has awarded $2M for Clean Energy Workforce Programs in 6 towns, including Biddeford, Portland, Freeport, Augusta, Orono, and Oxford Hills. Click here to learn more about their efforts to grow the clean energy sector.
There will be three bond issues on the state ballot this November: $30 million for the development and maintenance of outdoor trails, $25 million for research, development, and commercialization at Maine-based public and private institutions in support of technological innovation, and $10 million for the restoration of historic local community buildings. All three are relevant to an E2Tech constituency, and each will generate work for our community. E2Tech will be having a public program about how they will be implemented. Watch our events webpage for updates.
This winter, the newly installed senators and representatives in Augusta will start work on new legislation that will impact numerous segments of the environment and energy sector. As in prior years, E2Tech will have a legislative breakfast on the first Thursday in February. In addition, we plan on having a series of law & policy dialogs and sessions that help bring together those in the legal community, those who write and apply regulations, and those impacted by such developments. The first was evening gathering on Commercial Street in Portland in April with 54 registered participants. As with the bond issue, watch our events webpage for updates.
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