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LPGas
Technicians have a special bond with not only the equipment we service but also, most importantly, with the customers.
We have been selling propane appliances and parts for many years, and our relationship with those products is usually stronger than with any other person in the company. Often we are so in tune with our craft that we're not aware of how much impact we have on a customer's purchasing decisions.
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MEMA
Why sponsor?
From Kittery to Caribou, MEMA members and their employees make up a strong percentage of Maine's business
and consumer population, and your products and services should be in front of these decision makers.
When sponsoring Convention, you are contributing to the overall health and prosperity of one of Maine's
most essential associations by helping to fund annual educational programs, legislative efforts, state-wide
networking opportunities and future fundraising events. Centered on casual meetings and interactions, Convention
provides a perfect atmosphere to strengthen current relationships while also forging new ones.
Additional benefits of sponsorship include: Highly targeted marketing; Leveraged lead generation; Enhanced
product and brand awareness; Generation of NEW Sales; Access to mailing lists and broadcast opportunities.
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MEMA
For over 50 years, the MEMA Member Services Resource Guide (print addition) has been an essential companion to thousands of industry executives and business owners looking for solutions to their heating and cooling needs. Place your company's products and services in the hands of these decision makers to ensure the exposure you deserve!
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Federated Insurance
Question: Our company has recently instituted a new policy for requesting time off when another employee is already scheduled off and/or an employee who covers for the new requester's time off will be covering someone else and/or on vacation themselves consecutively with the new request. We have limited employees and only a few employees that cover for other employees. We have implemented that no two employees may be off at the same time and that all employees must review the vacation calendar prior to submitting a request for time off. All employees have access to the vacation calendar and it is updated each time a request has been approved. If an employee needs to request time off during either of those situations, we have requested that the employee provide a reason that they need off so that we can make a determination whether or not to approve the request.
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MEMA
MEMA Annual Convention
June 26-28 at Spruce Point Inn
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
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The Petroleum Marketers Association of America
The move to EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) is fraught with liabilities and delays for retailers. Retailers are receiving more chargebacks since Oct. 1, 2015, when nine of the largest U.S. payment networks enacted a financial liability shift burdening the party who uses the lesser technology, yet the networks are far behind in certifying new machines that would help retailers protect against fraud. There are multiple efforts in play to bring reason to the credit card markets.
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NACS
Avi Kaner, a co-owner of the Morton Williams supermarket chain in New York, has spent about $700,000 to update the payment terminals at his stores to accept EMV chip cards. However, he can't turn them on, writes The New York Times, a bottleneck in offering a more secure payment process that is frustrating retailers — both large and small — across the U.S.
Since the EMV liability shift took place on Oct. 1, 2015, retailers have been essentially put on hold to get their payment terminals certified to accept chip cards.
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The Hill
The Obama administration is fighting in federal court to defend its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rule, saying a lower court committed a "legal error" when it put the regulation on hold.
Lawyers representing the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management are asking the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver to overturn a Wyoming-based court's decision last year to halt the rule and allow regulators to enforce it.
That judicial injunction stemmed from the arguments from various states and the oil and natural gas industry that Congress has expressly prohibited the federal government from regulating fracking, even on federal and American Indian land, as the BLM did early last year.
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Portland Press Herald
A divided City Council approved a hotly contested fire code amendment early Tuesday, March 22, that requires a 1,257-foot buffer between important public facilities and proposed liquefied petroleum gas distribution plants.
The council's action followed a recent announcement by NGL Energy Partners that it had withdrawn a year-old proposal to build a $3 million propane depot at Rigby Yard. While the citizen-drafted code change was proposed late last year to limit NGL's gas storage plan, several councilors said they saw the amendment as a way to control potential development of propane facilities anywhere in the city, including by Rigby Yard owner Pan Am Railways.
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keepMEcurrent.com
In the aftermath of NGL Supply Co. withdrawing its application to develop a new liquid propane distribution terminal at the Rigby Rail Yard in South Portland, opponents of the project say they were justified in questioning whether the project met city code and was safe.
The opponents also say making those arguments does not mean that South Portland is unfriendly to business, as implied in a statement by Kevin Fitzgerald, regional manager at NGL Energy Partners, which was released on March 18.
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RTO Insider
ISO-NE market rules favoring natural gas are on a collision course with state and federal environmental mandates, speakers at the EUCI US/Canada Cross-Border Power Summit said recently.
Left to itself, renewable energy advocates said, the market would dictate a shift to natural gas, and only natural gas, ignoring the impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
Backers of gas generation countered that renewables are benefiting from government-backed subsidies and long-term contracts that threaten to reintroduce government-mandated integrated resource planning.
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Portland Press Herald
City officials are bracing for higher-than-usual legal fees in the year ahead as lawyers they've hired continue to contend with major players in the petroleum industry.
But some city councilors are concerned that setting aside an additional $250,000 for contracted legal services in the fiscal year starting July 1 won't cover legal fees that some fear could grow to $2 million over time.
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Reuters
The Rockefeller Family Fund said on Wednesday, March 23, it would divest from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and "eliminate holdings" of Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the oil company associated with the family fortune has misled the public about climate change risks.
Though only a sliver of the endowment's modest $130 million in assets is invested in fossil fuels, the move is notable because a century ago John D. Rockefeller Sr. made a fortune running Standard Oil, a precursor to Exxon Mobil. The charity said it would also divest from coal and Canadian oil sands.
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The Associated Press via Portland Press Herald
Concerns over a bird that ranges across the American West continue to delay federal oil and gas lease sales, five months after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell proclaimed the Obama administration had found a way to balance drilling and conservation.
The Interior Department announced that it will defer the sale of almost 60,000 acres of leases that were nominated by companies in eastern Montana as it works on new policies for greater sage grouse.
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The Daily Signal
California lawmakers and labor leaders are cheering a new deal that, if passed, raises the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, making the Golden State the first in the country to do so.
But labor experts are already warning that such a wage hike could lead to higher prices for consumers, more automation and a drop in employment.
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Portland Press Herald
Re: "Researcher says business groups used wrong data to back $10 minimum wage" (March 14):
Talk about a delayed reaction. The supposed minimum-wage math error that incensed University of California-Berkeley professor Michael Reich was published over six months ago, in a Press Herald article he was interviewed for ("Minimum wage hike has limits, study says," Aug. 30, 2015).
Reich apparently had no problem with the article at the time, given that the media people at his university promoted it on their Twitter account.
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CNN
Don't be fooled by the recent spike in oil prices. The world continues to drown in excess supply.
U.S. oil stockpiles skyrocketed by 9.4 million barrels recently to 532.5 million barrels, according to figures released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That's roughly triple what analysts had been bracing for and adds to "historically high" inventory levels.
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Portland Press Herald
A proposed law aimed at saving the state's ailing biomass energy plants is filled with language about electricity contracts and the benefits of renewable power, but it's really about jobs — and who stands to lose or keep them.
Testimony on Monday, March 28, before a legislative committee foreshadowed the challenge facing the Maine Legislature and Gov. Paul LePage in the weeks ahead as they try to save a sector of the state's forest products industry and hundreds of jobs without adding millions of dollars to electricity bills.
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Portland Press Herald
The flooring plant and sawmill at Kennebec Lumber Co. are bustling with activity on a weekday morning, as logs get measured and sliced into lumber and the boards are graded, stacked and prepared for shipping.
Meanwhile, just up the road, construction is nearing completion on a new biobrick manufacturing facility that will turn sawdust from the mill into a heating oil and firewood alternative – the eventual new home of Enviro Wood Briquettes.
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