Mar 27, 2008

Sears Island: Does JUPC's reach exceed its grasp?

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Critics of the port+park plan unfolding under the auspices of the Sears Island Joint Planning Committee say that the level of expertise on c...
Mar 25, 2008

Historic Wabanaki camp in Rockland ravine to be 'time capsuled'.

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Maine State Archaeologist Arthur Spiess has written us with a report on his recent examination of a ravine on the northwest edge of Rockl...
Mar 24, 2008

Sears Island: NMFS reenters island fight.

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The National Marine Fisheries Service is concerned with the direction of the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee is taking. The agenc...
Mar 18, 2008

PEER: No new port on Sears Island!

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EAST COAST’S LARGEST UNDEVELOPED ISLAND SLATED FOR CARGO PORT — Development Scheme for Maine’s Sears Island Resurfaces Again after 12 Years...
Mar 16, 2008

Sears Island: Raising the bar for MDOT

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Will her wetlands and eelgrass, her ferns and forests, her historic and prehistoric artifacts, her beaches and sandbars be protected from in...
Feb 6, 2008

Sears Island: state trying to avoid Section 4(f) future EIS on latest cargoport proposal?

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Under the Sears Island Planning Initiative, Maine DOT has a fast paced stakeholder process going the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Commit...

Marine Resource Committee: scallops, Halibut, clams, aquaculture

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Upcoming hearings & work session before the Marine Resources Committee Monday: Feb. 11th 1:00pm Public Hearing: L.D. 2156 An Act T...
Jan 31, 2008

LEGIS - Maine fish habitat to be protected when 'imperiled'

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A law protecting Maine fish habitat is up for amendment by the legislature. LD 2016 An Act To Safeguard Imperiled or Critically Imperiled Na...
Jan 29, 2008

Mussels of the intertidal- town control? LEGIS

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Marine Resources Committee will be looking at two bills tomorrow morning starting 9AM . Wed Jan 30, 2008. One bill proposes granting co...
Jan 23, 2008

LURC OUT: The Plum Creek hearings are about to end. Then...?

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The LURC Commissioners and their staff are to conclude their public hearings of panels of interested parties tomorrow or Friday in Augusta. ...
Jan 21, 2008

Maine bill would require killing all squatter fish found in fish pens.

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For 2008, Maine DMR has introduced LD 2137. An Act To Clarify the Licensing Requirements for Aquaculturists and Allow for the Appropriate ...

Maine bill would disappear "vernal pools" from state law.

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With the Maine legislature shifting into gear , it is time to track those bills, good and bad, that will this year go under the hammer of th...
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Jan 19, 2008

LURC asks: Can Plum Creek build without polluting water? State Agencies: NO

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Officials from three of Maine's resource agencies expressed doubt Friday that the Plum Creek resort development proposal could be built ...
Jan 12, 2008

Seal Island fishermen - No sunken bombs in the 'Danger Zone'

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In a posting last summer, the Bay Watch asserted that in the 1940s and 50s "... several generations of student bomber-trainees frequent...
Jan 9, 2008

Sears Island - at risk of LNG again?

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Someone asked me recently Is the LNG issue still at large? He was referring to Penobscot Bay, after reading an undated penbay.org webpage f...
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Jan 4, 2008

Maine/NH Port Safety Forum January 30th: LNG; icebreaking, port security, Penobscot Bay & much more

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Penobscot Bay maritime issues, LNG, icebreaking and more will be among the many topics discussed January 31st at the 80th meeting of the Ma...
Dec 16, 2007

Invasive species solution - a look outside the box.

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In addition to organisms stowing away in ballast water, ships transport aquatic and marine life on their submerged hulls. The environment ...
Dec 6, 2007

Right Whales visiting Penobscot Bay!

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A pod of nearly two dozen northern right whales is visiting the mouth of Penobscot Bay. As a precaution, the National Marine Fisheries Ser...
Dec 4, 2007

As goes Moosehead Lake, so goes Maine - right, Governor?

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Shall Moosehead Lake be crucified on the cross of corporatocracy? Tourism and respectful exploitation of wild and natural northern Maine, or...
Nov 30, 2007

IMO punts on ballast water

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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has decided to delay enforcement of a 2009 requirement for new ships to have ballast water tre...