Penobscot Bay Blog: April 2024

Apr 20, 2024

newscenter mercury in farmed salmon

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/features/not-all-salmon-is-good-for-you-activists-say-they-want-warning-labels-on-salmon-contaminated-with-high-mercury-levels/97-2c34248b-932f-473c-a983-8839fb249443

News: Baywatch tohelp Wind and Waves in

Taking a cue from Mother Nature:

Bay Watch to join Wind and Tide's tireless efforts to pierce the Sears Island Causeway.

SEARSPORT

"Where the wind digs, there dig I," said Ron Huber, a Penobscot Baywatcher. He said they are locating 1980s and 1990s submissions by MDOT contractors describing more fully the pipes and other buried obstacles to bore beneath , noting maps and documents describing the planning and construction of the causeway.

Some are mere cracks, he observed. while others suggest easy peasey dig-thrus to the other water body.
"While more storms will speed this necessary action, we believe that human beings need to add their wits and energies to hasten the process." he said.

" Once we bore through to the Searsport Harbor side, wind and waves should do the rest.," e the controversial

"We wish to thank Bruce Van Note at MDOT" Huber said , "for allowing we and the rest of Nature to complete this critical decolonization and emancipation of Wassumkik!"

Greg Robie: thoughts on the Sears island causeway

On Apr 3, 2024, at 1:27 PM, Greg Robie <robie@hvc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi Ron,

I have been engaged in some preliminary deductions about the role of the causeway and the tidal flats marine health.

Inspired by your plane ride pictures, I started this bit of educated speculation using Google Earth and off shore Gulf Stream northerly flows, near shore Arctic surface return flows, the Saint Lawrence River influence regarding onshore bottom water upwelling, and Penobscot River as the primary freshwater input. I deduced that whatever I could conclude concerning the Islesboro geological feature could be applied at a magnitude or two less, to Sears Island/Wasumkik, and this prior to the causeway, and additionally to the addition of cobbles to the intertidal bar.

My initial intuitively modeled current dynamics concerning Islesboro seem confirmed in this study: https://halseyburgund.com/docs/hburgund_thesis95.pdf. Due to that features and east and west channels roles, I imagine the two order of magnitude less is applicable to Wasumkik for a reasoned starting point to sort out what the causeway changed relative to the marine health of the related tidal flats. This pair of current charts from 1978 and included in the report are representative:

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The impact of a reduced twice daily flushing of leached toxins in the general area of Kidder and Mack Points, and particularly reduced Stockton Harbor tidal outflows – which would not be drawing waters from Long Cove – would be cumulative. Maine’s steamer clam, Mya arenaria, as syphon feeders would likely be initially impacted by the cumulative toxicity at its larva stage, and then additionally impacted by a reduced capacity of juvenile clams to reach sexual maturity. The cumulative toxicity could also impact both sperm and egg viability.

Similarly, the tongue of salt water of the incoming tide in the Penobscot River channel lifts and spreads the fresh water of the Penobscot River inflow into the Bay. This elevated level of fresh water, when drawn across the intertidal bar north of Wasumkik as an eddy current, would affect the salinity of both Long Cove and Stockton Harbor. Salinity is integral to both fertilization success of Mya arenaria clams, as well as where larva select as settlement sites.

Tipping points happen, and, regardless, happened.

Figure 1.16 demonstrates a current dynamic that went from one that could draw water across the intertidal bar due to the eddying to the east of Sears Island, to one that was stopped by the construction of the causeway. The stoppage significantly affected the estuary marine health of both Long Cove and Stockton Harbor. A relative stagnant condition in both tidal estuaries was affected. Given a collapse of these estuary systems for Mya arenaria, a disruption of a little bit of transport of brackish water across the Wasumkik cobbled intertidal bar, was significant. Prior to the cobbling the flow would have been even greater, but arguable not as significant to the Mya arenaria.

Further study that I would find both relevant and insightful would be soil core studies of the sedimentation that constitute both Wasumkik's intertidal bar and Cape Jellison’s isthmus. Any common geological history might demonstrate parallel sedimentation. Such common sedimentation history would significantly differ only in the quantity of the material deposited as sedimentation. The earliest sedimentation on the isthmus might be absent in the area of the bar due to the bar feature evolving at a significantly later geological time after the formation of the isthmus shifted the flow of the Penobscot exclusively to the east of the geological feature that is integral to Cape Jellison.

=)

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MAINE SPACE NUTS

space g crazies

https://www.mainespace2030.org/

https://www.mainespace2030.org/about/partners/

RETURN TO ISSUE PREVPOLICY ANALYSISNEXT

Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158

Norwegian enviro laws

https://www.legal500.com/guides/chapter/norway-environment/

Norwegian law protects those who pollute

https://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2016/1_barentz-sea.html

INPUT FROM NORWAY TO THE THEMATIC REPORT FOCUSING ON GOOD PRACTICES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Environment/SREnvironment/SafeClean/State/Norway.pdf

THEMATIC REPORT FOCUSING ON GOOD PRACTICES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RIGHT TO A SAFE, CLEAN, HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT Q & A
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Environment/SREnvironment/SafeClean/State/Norway.pdf

STRATEGIC PLAN 2011-2020 // AICHI-TARGETS
FRIDAY // 9.18.2020

https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets#:~:text=Strategic%20Goal%20A%3A%20Address%20the,biodiversity%20and%20promote%20sustainable%20use

AICHI Target 1

https://www.cbd.int/aichi-targets/target/1

Nature Diversity Act
Act of 19 June 2009 No.100 Relating to the Management of Biological, Geological and Landscape Diversity

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/nature-diversity-act/id570549/

Norway: environment legal guide

https://www.legal500.com/guides/chapter/norway-environment/

Law No. 100 on the management of biodiversity (Nature Diversity Act). Country/TerritoryNorway Document typeLegislationDate2008 (2022) SourceFAO, FAOLEX

https://www.ecolex.org/details/legislation/law-no-100-on-the-management-of-biodiversity-nature-diversity-act-lex-faoc104370/?

Maine's Governor is dumb as the others

The puzzle confuses most Mainers: Why is yet ANOTHER Governor stuck on the Sears Island flypaper of dreams flapped at her by such disreputable creatures as Angus King and his first Marine Commissioner, Robin Alden?

Will it help to consider a distant place similar but completely different? Though defacto Governess of this sprawling forest & salt paradise - comfortably barred from Awaysian America, Janet Trafton Mills would be instantly rebuffed if she brought forth suggestions so ecologically destructive to the prefecture' s salmon eels and other migratory and the stay-at-home-maority of species. Further it for the interim dashes hopes for a sister state/prefecture agreement, where the Ainu would work with Wabanki in the Aninus desperate efforts to preserve their language and their millenia of culture from finally washing away in the Sands of Time

Maine ever reminds me of my late partners' home prefecture Hokkaido. As the New World Encyclopedia helpfully states of Hokkaido (accent on 2nd syllable) "...formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso and Yes-So (. is... Japan's largest northernmost and most sparsely populated of its 47 prefectual level subdivisions." More about this later.

Govneronor. Mills appears to cling to the "blitzkreig" theory of getting what she wants. There is no other reason Maine's Governor clings to thiswitless notion notion , than has been roundly rejected so many times by its neighbor town, by courts , by federal agencies and the braver state agencies

Many a Maine governor past tried to fool the people by demanding his (or now HER) natural resource agencies DMR and IFW, and the Maine DOT to concoct at least superficially plausible rationales to convince a skeptical the US Army Corps of Engineers. They all failed.

As Ronald Reagan would've said with an exasperated eyeroll: {potentially defamatory comparison deleted. to meetFB stds]

King's first DMR commissioner Robin Alden actually managed to disgrace that Department more than all the past ones combined, as a look look through the . She filed nonsensical "comments" with the Federal Highway Administration and US Army Corps of Engineers.
Bunch of silliness about the island being just more same-old same-old Maine coast, only wrapped around an Island . So no biggie to trash it. Miles and miles of the Maine coast have shoreline stuff , Robin Alden essentially sneered. Not remotely important enough to block jobs and prosperity for Searsport, the State of Maine and Industry
https://www.penbay.org/searsisland/history/si_95_dmr_alden_acoefwha101395/

Robin Alden was jeered from coast to coast by actual marine ecologists not impressed that she had been editor of a big commercial fishery tabloid. Reporting on reporting on what fishermen fishermen do doesn't nessarily translate to understanding WHY the species they harvest need any particular places during their many life stages.

A firm yet furious response by Dr. Fred Short pf UNH New England's top eelgrass expert to the Army Corps so fully rebutted this reeking word salad that the King's minion discharged at them . https://www.penbay.org/searsisland/si_short_alden113095.html

T he Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute freshly hatched atlantic cod larvae require as immediate prey a high density in the water of soft-bodied marine microbes called amoebas. For the first 10-15 days after hatching, larval cod lack jaws capable of breaking open for the tiny fish to survive the first ten to fifteen days of their lives.

As the WHOI researchers put it, the tiny fish require:

"soft-bodied microzooplankton in the size range of 40 to 80 m at a nominal concentration of about 2 cells ml-1 in order to maximize survival through yolk-sac absorption (~10-15 days post-hatch)."

Have literally need for "babyfood" (soft bodied marine amoebas) during their Age Zero 1st year since hatching the nursery waters at a a minimum density. what they do

We ought respect this ecologically sacred place. See the several square miles of Federal designated and mapped Habitat Area of Particular Concern for Inshore Juvenile Atlantic Cod"?, as amended squaremiles of federally of Irresisible River embracing the Moon-slaved unstoppable Bay one of the Gulf of Maine subplumes that's been braided into the Eastern Maine Coastal Current since the Labrador Current dropped himn up to Fundy, ...[Note to animists: the EMCC is notoriously the most obsessivly talkative of the Gulf of Maine's family currents. if the let them that opted to head north for the poking of one or more of its its million subplumes, bursting with wild passengers young and old pouring UPSTREAM

Apr 15, 2024

The Nifting Pole

"And when all was ready, I go into the island. up around the island coast The Royal Lion, tied up into meek silence, I carry as a commoner's sack.

To the rocky point that looks inward to the mainland I go

I take in my hands my Nifting Pole.

Then I hold the Lion and behead Him. I drop his body and impale His golden head on the pole.

I point the Lion's Head to Norway, dark land beyond dawn.

Then, in a solemn form of cursing, I speak:

'Here I have setup a curse-pole, and this curse I turn on Crown Prince HRH Haakon Magnus and Prince HH Sverre of the Royal House of Glücksburg - including the sins of their father His Royal Highness, as follows:

* That Norwegians one and all lose interest in exploiting this Penobscot Bay and its Penobscot River.

* That your subjects all as one abandon this continent,

* That your subjects return to Norway and despoil and degrade your kingdom's wildwaters as their wasting places. until you understand their threat outside outside your kingdom and bar them.

*That every harm their subjects have already wreaked on democracy in Maine, corrupting ever corruptible Maine democratic and indepedent government officials is visited by them upon your Kingdom of Norway at their return

[I exempt from this curse His Majesty Harald V, Queen Sonja and the other women and children of His family ]

Here I turn the Royal Lion's head landwards.

This curse I turn also on the king's emissaries who attack this Penobscot Bay - shielded shamefully as Nordic Aquafarms:

*That they one and all - even Erik Heim surnamed Falsetongue too - even though he fled far north to our river's source, he too will lose interest in these American bays and rivers and indeed abandon the Gulf of Maine and the north american continent

* That your capitalist pirate war bands will instead plunder and lay waste crumbling Russia at your doorstep,

*That they cease promoting their sickening practice of tanks-imprisoned fishes! Mighty schools of proud salmon - in chains! Sunless all their lives,

*That their desire and your permissions to slake their desires- to wreak havoc on Maine's biggest bay - vanish from their hearts and minds just as winter seasmoke vanishes against risen sun

*That they not reach or find their home till they themselves have driven out all other warbands of subjects of the Royal Family from this land

The Lion's head I have turned inwards to the mainland; On the pole I cut these runes naming the Curse

This I have spoken.

Now I plant the pole in a rift of the rock, and let it stand there until time takes it down."

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Apr 8, 2024

Fury over Norwegian assault on Penobscot Bay Coastal towns

How bravely the Norwegian national flag waved, that chill evening breeze that blew atop the criminal Sears Island Causeway!

But ominous there. The encroaching dark, vanquishing valiant light around the globe to merely a blood-red sun. then

Now but a crimson slash across the throat of Nordic Night Maiden N'ott - splashing Her divine blood vividly against the clear cold skies, and let leafless maples and oaks glitter in April - cruelest month.

It was as if the all the gods were looking coldly upon what was to happen below, from their vantage point atop that lurid ridge , which comfortably overhangs tidy Mack Point of Searsport Harbor.

Here arrive liquid & gaseous carbons, acids, phosphates- plastics! passing from their extra-Maine states nations through the Gulf of Maine then to the top of Pαnawάhpskewi, Maine's biggest Bay. - past and future realm of the Pαnawάhpskewi* - then offload their liquid gaseous and solid cargoes for their landside journeys into the heart of the Dawn State.

* A simplified version "Penobscot" is still in some American English usage.

To Aroostook! Here a risky but potential lucrative Cuckoos Egg has been laid. though their nature: anti-personnel, anti aircraft, shipbusters, tunnel blasters- to cite few of the lucrative opportunities of the Corruption Class of the Warbird rockets and Area denial systems specialty markets -and their battening on America's Endless Offensive for Freedom,

As seen from the crumbling Seared Island causeway - aka "Brennan's Wall of Shame" - above the restless tide gnawing it with wooden stormfangs .

But, alas, many human men & women delight in gathering power by abusing those seeming weaker than themselves

[A camera focuses on a man. Behind him the infamous GAC Chemical Company's crumbling waste filled shore, whose shielding by corrupted agencies are , like the causeway, proof of human short-term self-interest thinking is NOT enough].

Hello My h name is Ron Huber. I am an American .
I'm very unhappy with the people of Norway

Hellow

A fitting place. This mile long wall of stone that, like Alexander the Great's causeway to the Island city Tyre, was forced upon an unwilling Island by invaders.

Though unlike conquered and enslaved Tyre, King Azemilcus there was pardoned bythe young Macedonian leader, you surely know, your Majesty) - unlike crushed Tyre l the forests, springs and streams of Wassumkik continue their eternal movement, granting refuge to myriad plant animal fungal algal and -importantly - the natural microbial species those on the land the water, and (secretly) traveling in the millions within seafogs , here and on your Majesty's rocky coast.

coastal Maine species seeking refuge from coastal human sprawl. continues to enliven n this 340 hectare tear-shaped island.

a remarkable , the geographic center of the Penobscot Estuary

the Norwegian's criminal ju subjects must for law breakers should always face thie

As flames licked thirstily at the fabric, I called out Harald V King of Norway for letting his subjects attempt to destroy this Little River estuary.
"Forbannet deg kong Harald!!!"
As eyes widened at the foreign words, I spat out the translation, then continued.