Merger enhances Canada’s role in Mass. energy puzzle

Merger enhances Canada’s role in Mass. energy puzzle

BOSTON — The expected interest from Hydro Quebec in delivering hydropower to Massachusetts under its new renewable energy law isn't the only aspect of the local energy puzzle that's shifting northward.

Houston-based Spectra Energy, which is pushing a controversial pipeline project to deliver more natural gas to New England, announced last week that it expects to merge with Enbridge Inc., a Canadian company, to create "the largest energy infrastructure company in North America" valued at $127 billion.

Coming to a store near you: K-cups for weed
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Coming to a store near you: K-cups for weed

Kelly Thomas

BOSTON – A Massachusetts-based company is revolutionizing the way marijuana is consumed, creating a delivery device based on the idea of the Keurig single-serving coffee-machine.

CannaKorp, a Stoneham start-up aimed at improving medical marijuana technology, is in the process of developing and marketing "CannaCloud," a pod-based vaporizer system similar in design to Keurig coffee pods, also known as K-cups. David Manly, a former executive at Keurig and the current CEO of CannaKorp said that he hopes the CannaCloud will be "as transformative in medical marijuana as pods were in coffee."

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