WRFR 2/18/23 Pen Bay Report - GOM Monitor

Maine Port Authority's executive director Matthew Burns gave an orientation briefing Thursday to  the Legislature's Transportation Committee Listen at the  22min link (mp3)   The "briefing" lasted 5 minutes. The questions from committee members went on for 17 minutes

*  VN Day  Victory over Nordic. The shaming of  Maine DEP and the City of Belfast by Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Related 2:  Industry Suit against Rockweed Coalition  members  should be  immediately tossed.

* The Seduction of  Rockland "leaders" by its latest developer hookup: 5G! 

Maine threw back the Texans at Gettysburg. Now?  Life in a city being exposed by political & media Qui$lings  to opportunistic infections of investor/developers after investor developers

Warren Mining promoter is merely a "finder" for Big Mine. 

Beyond an exploratory shaft, the company has no say . Pure frontman shield

Legislative Antics  

Penobscot Bay Report & Gulf of Maine Monitor, 1/6/18 podcast online.

The January 6, 2018 show of the Penobscot Bay Report & Gulf of Maine Monitor
Listen to Host Ron Huber reviewing and reporting on:

* New oil & gas plans for the Gulf of Maine. * U ME's Offshore Monhegan Wind Project. * Bills under review in Augusta * Cruise ships expansion projected for 2018.

Oil & gas drilling update . A look back to 1983, Reading from the court decision when CLF led the historic fight against Reagan and his Interior Secretary James Watt. CLF's dogged persistence  \actually kept the oilers off George Bank.  https://elr.info/sites/default/files/litigation/13.20445.htm

Maine Legislature 
 Limit the Number of Shrimp Licenses That May Be Used in Certain Seasons  

Offshore Wind update 
 "Monhegan Energy Task Force writes that according to the UME's contractor, 
 "the survey along the proposed sub-sea cable path from the windmill site to to land will begin no sooner than February 2018. Link to US DOE site for Maine AquaVentus project 

"Monhegan energy task force writes that, according to the UME's contractor, "the survey along the proposed sub-sea cable path from the windmill site to to land will begin no sooner than February 2018. Final survey area is still being finalized. Logistics with survey contractor are being finalized".

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UME's survey manager, Matt Nixon, will reach out to Monhegan fishermen to schedule a meeting with them on the Island to go over survey logistics, timing, and other details. This will likely need to be early January immediately after the holidays, but Matt will work with the fishermen to determine best timing for them.""

All interspersed with audio of waves lashing Owls Head and a now-gone foghorn duet. 

Who Guards the Guardians of natural Maine?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a phrase of the 1st century AD Roman poet Juvenal from his 6th Satire. "Who will guard the guards themselves?" he worried. 

 Below, listen to a January 26, 2015 Pen Bay Report interview  of one of those guardians of the guards: Kyla Bennet, New England director of  Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. (Five mp3s)
.When it comes to Nature, PEER  fights for the right of honest officials at all levels of environmental  & conservation governance to enforce the laws, rules and ordinances that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we walk upon and the myriad organisms that share our natural world with us
Part 1, Introduction to PEER 10 minutes
Part 2.  PEER on the Cape Wind project. 4 minutes
Part 3. PEER & Maine. Sears Island to DEP under Aho. 11 minutes 
Part 4. PEER, Municipal & Native American govts, to End. 5min sec.

Learn how Bennett and others protected Sears Island from Angus King and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway from then-legislatorJohn Martin's dirty politics in the 1990s,  How they braved the furious slings and arrows of well meaning green energy supporters, by standing up for government bird scientists whose warnings of very high density seasonal bird migrations through the area proposed for the Cape Wind  project off Cape Cod were being suppressed;  

PEER is presently hearing from  oppressed staff of Maine's Department of Environmental Protection,  that life under petroleum industry lobbyist turned Maine DEP commissioner Patricia Aho, is in the words of one of them  "A living hell".

We've got global warning enough without DEP rules going up in smoke adding to it. PEER fights for the right of honest officials at all levels of environmental governance to enforce the laws, rules and ordinances that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we walk upon and the myriad organisms that make up our natural world.

Pilot of the Bay: Captain Gelinas on keeping Penobscot Bay safe & prosperous.

On April 9th  I interviewed David Gelinas of Penobscot Bay and River Pilots on the challenges of steering cargo ships and tankers in and out of Penobscot Bay. 

Listen to the 44 minute interview click here 44 minutes. We also discussed the proposed Searsport Harbor expansion from the maritime perspective, and more.

Penobscot Bay Report Podcast: May 8, 2010: Lobsters, Raw Faith and Maine State

On this weekend's Penobscot Bay Report podcast  on coastal Knox County's   WRFR LPFM, Community radio, I talked with Artie Johnson, lifelong Rockland Harbor lobsterman, about the coming fishing season, the price of bait, the latest in the ongoing saga of the galleon Raw Faith,  and about that other big local economic engine that  some lobstermen  have shuttled through on occasion - the Maine State Prison. Interwoven with the sounds of Rockland Harbor's waves, gulls,  foghorns and ships 28 minutes.