Published: February 14, 2011
Tags: 331 W. Wisconsin Ave., Boston Store, Department of Neighborhood Services, Manthey, wall collapse, We Energies, Weiler
By Marie Rohde A downtown Milwaukee Boston Store was closed Monday after an interior wall collapsed, according to a spokesman for the store owner. “It apparently happened overnight,” said Brian Manthey, a spokesman for Wispark LLC, the parent company for store owner Bostco LLC. “It affected the second and third floors.” The store did not [...]
Published: February 3, 2011
Tags: accident, coal dust, explosion, Habush Habush & Rottier SC, lawsuit, Manthey, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, settlement, ThyssenKrupp Safway, Trecek, Trevino, U.S. Fire Protection, We Energies, Wisconsin Electric Power Co.
By Marie Rohde Eight workers severely injured in an explosion at the We Energies power plant in Oak Creek have received a $16 million settlement in a civil lawsuit, said their lawyer, Timothy Trecek. The settlement was announced Thursday on the second anniversary of the explosion. Alex Trevino, now 24, was the most severely injured [...]
Published: January 4, 2011
Tags: Hooper Corp., Manthey, Paul Gogan, power line, Sean Anderson, squirrel
By Marie Rohde When the lights blink and the weather’s not stormy, there’s a good chance a squirrel just died. Squirrels as electrocution victims are a leading cause of power outages and a gnawing concern for utilities such as We Energies, said Brian Manthey, a company spokesman. The problem is not when the critters scurry [...]
Published: December 7, 2010
Tags: Action Recyclers, Cathy Schulze, copper, copper thefts, Hornung, Hunzinger Construction, J.H. Findorff and Son, Leverence, Manthey, Yerkes
Comments: 2
By Marie Rohde The price of copper hit a 31-month high in New York and set a record in London on Tuesday. That’s great news for Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, but bad news for contractors and utilities such as We Energies, many of which have been hit hard by copper thieves. [...]
Published: October 29, 2010
Tags: biomass, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Domtar Corp., Doyle, electricity, Glacier Hills, Joint Committee on Finance, Manthey, Menominee River, Neal Torney, paper mill, PSC, Public Service Commission, RENEW Wisconsin, Rothschild, Steffes, Vickerman, We Energies
By James Briggs The state Department of Natural Resources has agreed to buy 2,714 acres along the Wisconsin-Michigan border from We Energies. If approved by the Joint Committee on Finance, as well as Gov. Jim Doyle, the DNR‘s $3.25 million purchase will result in the Menominee River State Park and Recreation Area, the first new [...]
Published: June 29, 2010
Tags: Audubon Middle School, gas leak, Manthey, We Energies
MILWAUKEE – Audubon Middle School in Milwaukee was evacuated shortly before noon on Tuesday after a construction crew hit a gas line near the school. According to We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey, the crew hit a 3-inch gas main near a breaker on Ohio Street between 38th and 39th streets. “We originally thought it was [...]
By Paul Snyder A school district in Rothschild is giving more than 2,600 reasons for demanding the state pinpoint exactly how much pollution a proposed biomass plant in the area will produce. “Our concern is to be careful about the safety of students and staff,” said Tom Owens, assistant superintendent of the D.C. Everest Area [...]
Published: April 30, 2010
Tags: ANGI Energy Systems, Clerkin, CNG, compressed natural gas, Dane County, Dane County Landfill, DiMaggio, Kathleen Falk, Madison Gas and Electric Co., Manthey, Westcott
Comments: 1
By Darryl Enriquez Dane County is $250,000 short of the money needed for a planned $740,000 effort to build a compressed natural gas fueling station, buy more than a half-dozen vehicles that run on the fuel and convert methane gas from the county’s landfill to run those vehicles, officials said. County officials plan to spend [...]
Published: March 25, 2010
Tags: Columbia County, Edgerton Contractors, Glacier Hills, Glacier Hills Wind Park, Manthey, Michels Corp., The Boldt Co., turbines, We Energies, wind, wind energy
Comments: 2
We Energies has selected three Wisconsin contractors to build the Glacier Hills Wind Park. The three contractors are The Boldt Co., Appleton; Michels Corp., Brownsville; and Edgerton Contractors Inc., Oak Creek. The project to build a wind farm in Columbia County is scheduled to begin in May or June. VISIT THE DAILY REPORTER’S PROJECT PROFILE [...]
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