Penobscot Bay Blog

State senator Dennis Damon - dubbed "Senator Dumb'un" for his studied silences upon vital ecological issues facing Maine...

In an Open Letter dated June 5, 1996 to then-Maine Governor Angus King, Wayne, Maine resident Julian Holmes criticizes the Governor's...

T"New" is a relative term. The Club used to use the courts to force good behavior among the pollution dischargers, oldgrowth cle...

Twas with some trepidation that I received a copy of the semi-glossy flier exuded by FOPSI - that astroturf 501(c)(3) NGO called the Frie...

Like a bayonet thrusting into Maine's soft midcoast underbelly, a proposed NAFTA-ruled super container port has been proposed to move ...

Continuing on in our review of the role of moderate and astroturf green groups in the industrial attack on Sears Island, we come inevitably ...

The remarkable general & near-absolute refusal of Maine's ENGO nature conservation community to take part in repelling the state...

Saturday night August 8, 2009 at the Rockport Opera House was an extraordinary conservation crossover event, one whose repercussions will l...

The first wave of development on wild Sears Island comes, disappointingly, if not-too-surprisingly, from the sold-out greens of FOSI, ...

A great time today at the Maine Lobster Festival. I get there around noon, check in at the volunteers office, then head down to the marin...

I went to Maine Governor Baldacci's office today and copied around 100 pages of FOA stuff - Most of the other 150 pages were replicated ...

WERU's recent effort to convene a Sears island panel in Bucksport featuring supporters and defenders of the state's divide-the-isla...

Will the Maine Coast Islands National Wildlife Refuge move its headquarters to Sears Island? Missing from the meeting on this TOPIC last nig...

The Great Gulf of Maine Gold Rush/Wind & Tide Rush is on . Venture capitalists want to lease vast areas of the GOM & its tidal river...

All week the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine is hosting Energy Ocean 2009 . Heavily attended by afficionados of renewable electricity ...

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

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....

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

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

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