Apr 29, 2008

Sears Island: Natural Areas Program says 'Nothing special here, JUPC, party on!'.

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Maine Natural Areas Program has produced an important if misleading report on Sears Island's marine and upland wildilfe and habitats fo...
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Apr 28, 2008

Why lobster drag fisheries are a bad idea.

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When the introduction of fossil-fueled fishing boats made mobile bottom trawling of the Gulf of Maine possible in the  late 1860s, the US F...
Apr 25, 2008

Sears Island: Lines in the sand.

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Someone upset with the Sierra Club's position on Sears Island made his or her own position clear while visiting Wassumkeag. The writing...
Apr 23, 2008

'90s Sears Island activists up in arms over JUPC "deal"

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A groundswell of concern is becoming a wave of anger as activists and others who stopped Angus King's 1990's Sears Island port pla...
Apr 22, 2008

Sears Island: Legislature says - Fix JUPC plan and get back to us in December

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Evidently the Maine Legislature is not terribly enthused by the output so far of the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee . According t...
Apr 20, 2008

Plastic pollution-a problem at the marine microbe level

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Plastic pollution is one of the tragedies of modern technology. Example: on the macro scale, for example, untold millions of plastic cigar...
Apr 19, 2008

Sears Island: don't worry, be happy.

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Here's the scoop from the Soup's Tanya Mitchell Read her article " Coast Guard: No 'show stoppers' in Sears Island join...
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Apr 18, 2008

Gulf of Maine EBM Toolkit Survey Report

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The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment was established in 1989 by the Governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, New Ha...

Be kind to tadpoles; don't use atrazine herbicides

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Tadpoles aka baby frogs, develop deformed bodies and gonads from exposure to the popular weed killer atrazine, and now Tufts university res...
Apr 14, 2008

Sears Island as container port.

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The nightmare unveiled... Just popping up on the Maine Department of Conservation website is a review of setting up a container port on Se...
Apr 12, 2008

Bagaduce River slowed by 15% if tidal turbines installed?

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The Tidal Energy Device Evaluation Center (TEDEC) operated by a consortium that includes Maine Maritime Academy proposes to run a varie...
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Sears Island - an end-point for Atlantica?

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A recent report in New Hampshire Business Review notes the Maine DOT's desire to have a port on Sears Island part of the " Northea...
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Apr 11, 2008

Sears Island - new advisory council will ignore likely container port impacts

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Below is a transcription of the April 10, 2008 draft of a "Concept Paper for a Sears Island Conservation Area Advisory Council" t...
Apr 9, 2008

Sierra Club supports industrializing Sears Island

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Say it ain't so, Joan ! Shocking but true , the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club under the leadership of Joan Saxe has endorsed the bu...
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Apr 8, 2008

Sears Island wetland kill mitigated on Ducktrap River shoreline

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According to the April 8 edition of Maine State Planning Office's Weekly Highlights (pdf) the state planning office's Land for Main...

Abby Burgess retrieves lost bay lobster traps

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From the Lobster Fact Blog The U.S. Coast Guard is called upon this time of year by bay fishermen to do what they can’t — haul massive tangl...
Apr 7, 2008

Maine Port Safety Forum April 10th: LNG, whales, ice,, more.

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Port Safety Forum Thursday The quarterly Port Safety Forum meeting comes up this Thursday April 10 at 10am at the Portland Ocean Terminal. ...
Apr 3, 2008

Sears Island - who gets to carve it up?

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Like the West divvying up the Ottoman Empire, the players aboard the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Commission are poised to slice up Sear...
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...