Business
A New England utility and a Malaysian logging firm have embarked on a venture to reduce carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, not by planting more rain forest trees, but by cutting them down more efficiently.
Aug. 4, 1992
Energy: The San Francisco company, readying for the open electricity market, beat 25 competitors at auction.
Aug. 7, 1997
Competition: Power companies are sizing up their future markets and modifying their operations accordingly. They must adapt to survive.
May 18, 1997
World & Nation
It’s a familiar scene in New England: an old mill town with massive brick buildings that once housed wool spinners and cotton looms, clean streets and tidy houses.
Oct. 17, 1993
New England Electric System said it will be acquired by National Grid of Britain for about $3.2 billion in cash and assumed debt, the second purchase of a U.S. utility by a British power company in a week.
Dec. 14, 1998
The $925-million sale to a partnership is part of the energy company’s plan to reduce debt.
June 1, 2005
A Massachusetts utility company has begun talks aimed at taking over troubled Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, but not its 36% share of the stalled Seabrook nuclear plant, officials said Tuesday.
Feb. 24, 1988
Travel & Experiences
In 1830, 16-year-old Sarah Hodgdon, a millworker in Lowell, Mass., wrote these sweet lines to her parents back home in New Hampshire: I wish you well from all my heart, Although we are so far apart.
April 1, 2001
In the wastes of northern Quebec, where the winter temperature sometimes falls to 60 degrees below zero, caribou outnumber people 40 to 1.
Jan. 15, 1989
Utility companies worked to restore electricity after fierce ice storms felled power lines in Michigan, parts of upstate New York, New England and Canada during Christmas week, leaving tens of thousands in the dark.
Dec. 26, 2013