May 29, 2009

John Muir's ghost warns Maine Sierra Club: don't side with port sprawl!

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The spirit of Sierra Club founder John Muir - shown here awarding the Maine Sierra Club Chapter his Rubber Duck Award for "Quack Enviro...
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May 11, 2009

Downeast Magazine rewards fish nursery smasher-wannabes

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Alas the new management as Downeast Magazine hasn't taken long to revert to the old boss' shirley templing of the issues of the day....
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May 3, 2009

Sears Island - Massachusetts company plans aquaculture cages off "protected" area.

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On April 29th, DMR hosted a scoping session in the Searsport town office for Massachusetts quahog & oyster cage farmer William Vaughan t...
Apr 27, 2009

Marine habitat bill - Maine legislature shd remove "licence" section

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I personally oppose LD 1331 An Act Regarding Saltwater Recreational Fishing. A s presently worded The marine recreational license portio...
Apr 22, 2009

Sears Island - the once and future LNG port plan?

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In MaineBiz, reporter Mindy Favreau observes in a recent article that : "So far, three lawsuits have been filed against the DOT, clai...
Apr 15, 2009

Sears Island: the view from Castine

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Spent the day going to Castine and coming back, my lovely amanuensis Kristine at my side. A trip to the Maine Maritime Academy, where I and ...

Sears Island: making the case for hearing the case

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In the course of fifteen pages, Huber refutes MDOT's arguments calling for his case in Maine Superior Court to be dismissed without hear...
Apr 8, 2009

Penobscot Bay scallopers defiant toward DMR's proposed closure rule

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The title pretty well sums up what I saw at the April 6th meeting at the Roundtop Center in Damariscotta. When not a single hand went up am...
Mar 31, 2009

Port Plan Flameout as Huber pulls MDOT's plug.

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MDOT misses all four critical deadlines. Huber Wins by Default? ROCKLAND. The Sears Island partition plan may be history, depending on how a...
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Mar 27, 2009

Sears Island Smackdown! Chief Justice won't accept MDOTs motions: wrong court!

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It is as though MDOT's hired guns, attorneys Rebecca Farnum and her sidekick Jason Donovan of Thompson and Bowie LLP , had purposely...
Mar 26, 2009

Sears Island litigant calls MDOT's response to suit "encouraging".

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Legal actions continue in Maine Superior Court over State's Sears Island Partition Plan. Rockland. A man suing the Maine Department of T...
Mar 20, 2009

Is it your mudflat, my mudflat or our mudflat?

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LD 852 An Act To Clarify the Public Ownership of Marine Organisms within the Intertidal Zone Be it enacted by t...

Exiled Pen Bay Area inmates - bring 'em home - Meeting at Belfast UU Sat Noon

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On Saturday, noon to 4pm the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition, or MPAC, is hosting a gathering and potluck at the Unitarian Universalist c...
Mar 15, 2009

First Nations' name for Sears Island goes from bright to dark.

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Just as the European colonists and their descendants have given the island at the top of Penobscot Bay a variety of names, so to have the ...
Mar 13, 2009

MDOT may use stimulus money to destroy Searsport's Long Cove Ledge and Sears Island fish nursery to help container ships,

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The date was fitting. On Friday the 13th of March, the Legislature's Transportation Committee was given a plan by MDOT Commissioner Co...

Sears Island plaintiffs may subpoena Maine JUPC members

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Members of the Joint Use Planning Committee may soon find themselves ordered to appear in Maine Superior Court, after preliminary motions f...
Mar 8, 2009

Ocean Energy. Maine Fishermens Forum Panel Audio online.

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At the 2009 Maine Fishermen's Forum, ocean wind and water energy proponent John Ferland of Ocean Energy Renewable Power Co of Maine held...
Mar 2, 2009

Shipping Pollution - can upper Penobscot bay handle all the carbon?

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Commercial ships spew half as much particulate pollution as world's cars . Upper Penobscot Bay could become an asthma cluster area if ...
Feb 25, 2009

Eelgrass researchers, regulators of NW Atlantic meeting.

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The workshop Status, Trends, and Conservation of Eelgrass in Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States ,was a two day event, Februa...
Feb 23, 2009

Sears Island: Second Lawsuit filed against MaineDOT easement

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For Immediate Release Feb 23, 2009 Sears Island Conservation Easement seen increasingly in doubt . A UGUSTA – An Augusta man has filed a...