Sep 30, 2011

Mack Point LPG gas plan - Panormas of views to be fouled if it is built

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 Here are links to three panorama photographs, courtesy Taber Photography , and Point of View Helicopter Service ,  taken while hovering at...
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Offshore Windpower: A Royal approach to conserving seabirds & migrant birds

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The Biodiversity Research Institute is bringing Rowena Langston of the Royal Society of the Protection  of Birds (RSPB) to discuss  the Eur...
Sep 29, 2011

Mack Pt gasser wannabees suddenly cancel stakeholder meeting

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At the request apparently of the Conoco corporados*, the Coast Guard has cancelled  tomorrow's big  stakeholder meeting about plan to c...
Sep 22, 2011

Stop the Stank! Don't let the upper estuary take on a permanent sulfur stench

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Maine DEP will decide by  Friday  whether to approve the Conoco Oil  Super Tank project for liquified Petroleum Gas - biggest tank in New En...
Sep 14, 2011

DCP-Midstream plan to foul upper Penobscot Bay skyline runs into opposition

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Mack Point Tank Farm, viewed from Searport Shores Campground, Searsport Two Tanks, or  No Thanks! DCP Midstream Partners needs to resp...
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Sears Island. Sierra Club's sellout bears its poisonous harvest.

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The US Army Corps of Engineers  has just announced that it has given final approval to Maine Dept of Transportation's Sears Island Umbr...
Sep 12, 2011

Island Institute: Blurring the Facts.

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In his essay " The Blur of Summer ", Island Institute chief  Phil Conkling muses on the passing of that season, and bashes a bit a...
Sep 1, 2011

9/1/11 Fishermen's Voice publishes two articles questioning ocean windmills impacts

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On September 1, 2011  Fishermen's Voice a newspaper that covers Maine and  Gulf of Maine fishing news and issues,  published two articl...
Aug 19, 2011

Maine offshore windpower - Salazar says: No windmills in areas with "fishing sensitivities"

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ORONO.  Maine. US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced  that his department will not allow ocean windfarms to be leased in areas of ...
Aug 13, 2011

Offshore wind meeting 08/11/11 Rockland Maine. Listen to speakers & questioners

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On August 11, 2011, the Island Institute hosted a panel discussion of ocean windpower extraction plans for the Gulf of Maine , at the Strand...
Jul 18, 2011

Saving the Gulf of Maine by simply Standing

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In Huber v. BPL , I challenged the state decision to let the University site its offshore wind test center off Monhegan's Lobster Cove....
Jul 15, 2011

Island Institute Offshore Wind Exploitation webinar 7/7/11 AUDIO recordings.

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The meeting was organized by Island Institute. Speakers included Heather Deese, Ph.D., II Director of Marine Programs, Amanda LaBelle, II ...
Jul 13, 2011

Coastal Mountains Land Trust outrage: NGO agrees to join in gutting five acre Goose River headwaters forest for skate skiers

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Outrage is indeed coming from every quarter at news that Maine's Coastal Mountains Land Trust proposes to go along with a forest fragmen...
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Jul 9, 2011

Camden Snow Bowl plan to log & bulldoze Goose River headwaters draws fire. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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The US Army Corps of Engineer and other federal agencies are now investigating the plan being hatched between Coastal Mountains Land Trust a...
Jul 4, 2011

Monhegan Deathwatch: Centennarian to be slain by researchers with court order

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Bellowing "move your easels!" University of Maine's DeepCwind engineering teams are moving to take down America's oldest a...
Jun 28, 2011

DeepCwind Consortium: a Pyrrhic victory?

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DeepCwind ruling by Maine Superior Court a  “Pyrrhic Victory” for University of Maine-led industrial consortium - critic.   ROCKLAND  In a...
Jun 22, 2011

Island Institute sells out (again) to big industry

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In his latest drizzle of class warfare  " Listening to the Scenery "  Island Institute's ever-industry-toadying Phil Conkling ...
Jun 15, 2011

Gulf of Maine - will offshore wind extraction change GOM currents?

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The challenge is getting the public to understand that sustained extraction of a gigawatt of kinetic wind energy from the small proposed a...
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Jun 10, 2011

Penobscot Bay Watch to US DOE on DeepCwind - It's the Maine Coastal Current & the Lobster larvae

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This was set in slightly modified form to Laura Margason, US Dept of Energy on June 9, 2011. RE: DOE/EA 1792 University of Maine’s Deepwate...
Jun 2, 2011

Sears Island: Cargo cultists continue pressing $200 million bond bill.

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That Sears Island $200 million bond bill? IT IS STILL IN PLAY. Yes, LD 420 would float this bond issue on the next election ballot "fo...