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Feb 5, 2019

Whole Oceans as of January 2019

Since  its March 20, 2018 public presentation,   Whole Oceans LLC has rather sailed through a six month journey from application to state permit approval on November  22, 2018. 

This was followed by a  12/17/18 appeal of Whole Oceans permit by bay citizen  Holly Faubel . The  administrative appeal was dismissed January 17, 2019  by Maine Board of Environmental Protection   based on the state's questionable  challenging of her legal standing  - not on the risk identified by Faubel of boosted methylmercury production, and  its circulation into the western bay - her neighborhood -  - thanks to boosted  & concentrated salmon manure production at that critical Bucksport location. See  Faubel's  References & data pages  There, a remnant elemental mercury pool is pushed to and fro by tide and current - and reacts with nutrients such as the  RAS salmon excrete by methylizing with it into much more neurotoxic methylmercury .

There things stand for the moment. Now it is time for state legislative initiatives

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