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Use search bar or archives list on rightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-91584277161377866442024-03-16T10:38:00.004-04:002024-03-16T10:40:19.847-04:00bay history TV news center Maine not all salmon is good . River full of mercury not the smartest place to grow fish Some activists in Maine are urging the state to label certain farmed salmon due to potential health risks... say 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-a983-8839fb249443Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-66595226146550546322024-03-16T09:40:00.002-04:002024-03-16T09:41:38.411-04:00Greg Robie on maine BEP rule change proposal january 2 RE: a reconsideration relative to December 7th's draft minute 2 and any approval Honorable Chair Susan Lessard,Prior to placing an approval of the December 7th's draft minutes on the table for our Board’s review and consideration, please bring to its attention that the affecting of today’s public hearing for a repeal and replace rulemaking undertaking and Chapter 2 as recorded in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-8888442500888473662024-03-16T05:22:00.000-04:002024-03-16T05:22:58.787-04:00Amoebas reactions to light spectra. 1917 study FromReactions of ameba to light, and the effect of light on feeding.Asa A, Schaefer Dept of Zoology Univesity of TennesseeCONCLUSIONS. From these experiments it may be concluded that white light and all the visible spectral colors cause positive responses; but whether all are equally attractive cannot be definitely stated, for experiments would have to be staged differently to produce Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-11373907235588040202024-03-11T09:57:00.011-04:002024-03-11T16:15:01.701-04:00 From End of Nature to End of Nurture: McKibben form-letter bashing Penobscot's estuary defenders shows Mills admin desperationOh the horror! A form letter signed by Bill McKibben - with the Governor's rhetoric patched in! Mr. McKibben is one of those lucky writers whose revelation - that human pollution and habitat damage is everywhere, from abyssal sea plains to the stratosphere - resulted in a bestselling book The End of Nature. This bought him a seat in the ImportantUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-40319042370192319102024-03-09T21:46:00.000-05:002024-03-09T21:46:05.478-05:00FOIA & FOAA requests. From Sears Island in the 1990s to windpower in the 2010s1995 Sears Island Cargoport plan. State and federal FOIA'd documents2003-2004 FOAA LNG Plan. State Documentshttps://www.penbay.org/searsisland/searsfoa01a.htmlhttps://www.penbay.org/searsisland/searsfoa02.htmlhttps://www.penbay.org/searsisland/searsfoa03.htmlhttps://www.penbay.org/searsisland/sifoa04.html
2008-2009 FOAA Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-65116966528199050892024-03-08T17:26:00.005-05:002024-03-08T17:26:38.202-05:00Sears Island History 1995. Oppo writes Council on Environmental Quality: EPA's J. Devillar's not following law Ron HuberCOASTAL WATERS PROJECTPOB 1871Rockland ME 04841October 13, 1995 (by Fax)Ray ClarkCouncil on Environmental Quality722 Jackson PlaceWashington DCDear Mr. ClarkTwo persons (Mark Imlay and Denny Haldeman) suggested I contact you concerning our group's efforts to make sure that NEPA issues are properly addressed in the course of the Section 10/404/permitting process forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-62132308279215295372024-02-09T00:52:00.003-05:002024-02-09T00:52:21.435-05:00Maine state laws mentioning the Maine Board of Environmental Protection: Searching Maine Revised Statutes in Title 38 for "Board of Environmental Protection" .Title 38, §341-G: Board of Environmental Protection FundTitle 38, §1101: FormationTitle 38, §438-A: Municipal authority; state oversightTitle 38, Chapter 2: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONTitle 38, §1062: Declaration of policyTitle 38, §1282: Standards of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-31285896905609539832024-01-23T12:14:00.006-05:002024-02-06T23:33:35.349-05:00Maine DEP officials involved in the 2023-2024 response to the GAC Chemical shoreline failures The violent storms of December and January shattered many coastal structures and has ti riggered state nad federal response . But lacking from the sites getting attentoin are Maine's coastal shoreland legacy wastes dumps and pits, where the unuseable byproducts of 19th and 20th century fertilizer and paper mill chemicals production , Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-30824024908201473412024-01-23T08:15:00.020-05:002024-01-23T19:15:34.706-05:00DEP responses to crumbling GAC Chemical Shore December 2023 - January 2024. Verbal enforcement agreements? Two informative Maine DEP email chains of 12/2723 and 01/09/24 illuminate the agency's responses to the collapses reported to them by Penobscort Bay Watch along major portions of GAC Chemical's filled shorelines in Searsport. See list of the DEP officials in these emails and their missionsThese are made available courtesy of virtual Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-9761973773219908512024-01-07T22:21:00.009-05:002024-01-07T22:51:03.336-05:00Bay History 1992. Stockton Harbor tragedy: Looking back 12 years after they blocked half the harbor's circulation around Sears Island in Penobscot Bay. Three decades ago Cape Jellison resident Lorin Hollander voiced his observation and misgivings about the results to Stockton Harbor of blocking harbor circulation with the Sears Island causeway, twelve years after the fateful closure . Bangor Daily News 10/8/92Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-7192765788407772212024-01-04T21:09:00.003-05:002024-02-07T18:37:15.485-05:00GAC Chemical 42 reported oil or haz waste incidents 1994 - 2020Here are 43 Kidder Point oil or chemical waste spills reported to Maine DEP 1993 - 2020: * 23 reported by "GENERAL ALUM & CHEMICAL" 1993-2004 Spill NumberReport DateTown/MCDLocationSpill TypeTank TypeB-2-1994Jan 3, 1994SEARSPORTGENERAL ALUM INC. KIDD...Oil IncidentUnknown/UnspecifiedB-64-1995Feb 7, 1995SEARSPORTGENERAL ALUM & CHE...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-55004185877754322022024-01-04T18:40:00.005-05:002024-01-04T18:52:54.928-05:00Delta Chemical's reported 44 oil and chemical spills at Kidder Point 1983 - 1994Maine DEP records the following 44 chemical and or oil spill incidents at Delta Chemical between 1983 and 1994 during its operation of the chemical facility, which it handed over to General Alum and Chemical beginning in 1994 Click on Spill Numbers on left for Reports. (html) (Sorry about file overlap)B-257-1983Oct 14, 1983SEARSPORTDELTA CHEMICALS INC KI...Hazardous Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-44018935694462578402024-01-03T08:52:00.000-05:002024-01-03T08:52:08.046-05:00Beach seining links Searsport 2009 - 2011 and historic * 2009* https://www.penbay.org/searsisland.org/beachseine_rpt_09.pdf* https://www.penbay.org/searsisland.org/galleries/pbw_beachseine_rpt_2009.pdf* https://www.penbay.org/hapc/beachseine_searsport_hbr_101109/beachseine5.jpg* https://www.penbay.org/hapc/beachseine_searsport_hbr_101109/beachseine5a.jpg* https://www.penbay.org/publab/summer_maps/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-802310402647865472023-12-24T09:09:00.000-05:002023-12-24T09:09:04.976-05:00Sears Island struggles Media coverage 1960s to 2020sRead and learn from media coverage of your past victories against the industrialists who have brought their island and bay ravaging schemes to Searsport, raised quite the hubbub then left, tail between their legs. Sears Island 1960sSears Island 1970sSears Island 1980sSears Island 1990sSears Island 2000sIntermixed: letters to the editor, op-eds and columnists. People Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-88949207719287115802023-12-24T08:33:00.001-05:002023-12-24T08:33:29.832-05:00searisland linkjs Sears Island 1960s Sears Island 1960s Sears Island 1960s Sears Island 1960s Sears Island 1960s sears_island_1960s/- sears_island_1970s/- sears_island_1980s/- sears_island_1990s/ sears_island_2000s/ Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-16959967855062590352023-12-03T07:13:00.008-05:002023-12-03T08:17:21.064-05:00Maine BEP- its legal jurisdictionMaine Board of Environmental Protection is mentioned in these state law sections: Title 2, Title 3, Title 5, Title 7, Title 10, Title 12, Title 22, Title 29-A, Title 32, Title 35-A and Title 38.Title 2 §6: Salaries subject to adjustment by GovernorTitle 2, §6 Salaries subject to adjustment by Governor...title2sec6.html, 26.5KB, 2% matchTitle 3, §959: Scheduling guideline for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-40406327971736660392023-12-01T23:45:00.004-05:002023-12-01T23:48:32.528-05:00Conversations with Claude starting with the first Bacterial Communication Blocking: Quorum Sensing Disruption Strategies[Includes ROMAJI TEXT& SAMIZU INTERLUDE]Let us consider the biofilm disrupting strategies and techniques that microbiologists such as Timothy Lu have devised or discovered, to disrupt or block bacterial quorum sensing. In many such blocking prevents pathogenic bacteria species from determining their population density has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-35363411784490355412023-11-30T15:01:00.008-05:002023-12-01T18:32:01.579-05:00Dragon Deathwatch: The Year in FOAAs Many more to come friends but read here about: MDEP & Dragon on rerouting Quarry 5's wastewater.* 3/1/23 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-83625066324140042562023-11-25T11:15:00.003-05:002023-11-25T11:15:47.433-05:00Conserve less foundation the game that our ridiculous eco-turncoat chums at CLF.02 are pulling......They be like: ..Sure, Sears Island is the estuarine center point of the entire Maine coast. It's where upper bay and lower river commingle. Where downeast and midcoast waters wash their respective sides of this single island. And where their respective - and actually biologically slightly different- wildlife,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-47224459642640169432023-11-25T11:14:00.002-05:002023-11-25T11:14:49.834-05:00Captain Sammon So we need to prove that it was indeed shipped from Bone Valley south of Orlando, sent from there by rail almost entirely via a now - vanished port on in Boca Grande on florida's SW coast. A 1981 edition of the Boca Beacon has a romantic sea tale in it featuring "Captain Sammon, Master of the S/S Millinocket, which was calling at Boca Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-16491830036347676032023-11-25T11:14:00.001-05:002023-11-25T11:14:14.041-05:00BEP lawsued downthe years https://law.justia.com/cases/maine/superior-court/2005/hanap-04-08.htmlhttps://casetext.com/case/watts-v-maine-board-of-environmental-protectionhttps://files.mainelaw.maine.edu/library/SuperiorCourt/decisions/CUMap-13-01.pdf=================================================================================================================================================Recent Environmental Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-84422585015100055722023-11-25T04:37:00.005-05:002023-11-25T04:37:51.005-05:00BEP annual actions 1972 - 2002On July 1, 1972, the Maine Commission was re-designated as the Board of Environmental Protection. The Board was created by legislation that also established the Department of Environmental Protection. The Department included a commissioner and three program bureaus: Air QualityLand Quality ControlWater Quality ControlThe Board of Environmental Protection's address was: State Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-53217590197445530722023-11-19T08:31:00.000-05:002023-11-19T08:31:44.276-05:00Penobscot Bay water circulation: through a glass, darkly
Pettigrew 2000
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: (4)
I. The freshening influence of the Penobscot River observed during the spring is clear only
on the western side of the bay. Within the western bay, the major portion of the waters
of riverine origin flow out of the bay in the channel on the eastern side of Islesboro, and
continue on in the channel on the western side of Vinalhaven. Although some of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-63249709656773947092023-11-10T14:33:00.016-05:002023-11-10T21:08:07.129-05:00The environmental and ecological impacts of ocean windpower extraction and diversion.How do floating offshore wind energy diversion arrays affect the natural energetics of the Gulf of Maine? How could those changes, if any affect the Gulf of Maine's biota, which relies on those windborne energies for their survival - at multiple life stages? The known unknowns are knowable. We know a lot about water movement in the GOM, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179614.post-64807494474295646362023-11-03T00:24:00.000-04:002023-11-03T00:24:23.332-04:00The Wind Blows: Read the Comments already submitted to BOEM on their Offshore wind energy plan for the Gulf of Maine PUBLIC SUBMISSIONComment from CClogis USA- Startup being IncorporatedAgency Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementPosted Oct 26, 2023ID BOEM-2023-0054-0007PUBLIC SUBMISSIONComment from Stevens, LeilandAgency Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementPosted Oct 26, 2023ID BOEM-2023-0054-0010PUBLIC SUBMISSIONComment from Cameron, JeffreyAgency Bureau of Ocean Energy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0