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March 11, 2010
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Press releases, events, publications released, etc. from Maine environmental organizations and agencies. Submit content.
Wild Poetry, Mar 14
Event - Posted - Saturday, March 06, 2010
A nature writing workshop for ages 8 and older. Leaders: Cheryl Daigle, Penobscot River Restoration Trust, and Holly Twining, naturalist. At Fields Pond Audubon Center, Holden, ME. March 14, 1-3 p.m. Registration fee. |
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American Loggers, Fridays, 10 p.m.
Announcement - Saturday, March 06, 2010
In the far northeastern the U.S. lies a vast primeval back-country known as the North Maine Woods. This breathtaking wilderness constitutes the single largest swath of unprotected forest north of the Mississippi. The men of Pelletier Inc., seven brothers and their sons, lead their crews deep into the Maine wilderness to claw out a living. American Loggers follows this hearty breed, marveling at their stubborn dedication and ingenuity as they tackle the forests of northern Maine. Discovery Channel, Fridays at 10 p.m. |
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Maine Wildlife Appreciation Day, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Friday, March 05, 2010
Gov. John Baldacci has proclaimed March 9, 2010, as Maine Wildlife Appreciation Day. Conservation interests will have exhibits in the Hall of Flags in the State House in Augusta, 9AM - 12 Noon. |
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Pro Wolf Rally, Mar 6
Event - Posted - Friday, March 05, 2010
To protest Cabela's wolf killing derbies. March 6, Noon to 2PM, near Cabela's store in Scarborough, ME. |
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Babson Creek nature walks
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Maine Coast Heritage Trust is offering a series of late winter/early spring Thursday afternoon nature walks at its Babson Creek Preserve in Somesville. The walks will be from 3 to 4 p.m. on March 11, 18, and 25 and April 1 and 8. |
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Carnivore conservation, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Fresh from a seven-month journey through British Columbia and Alaska, conservationist Susie O'Keeffe will discuss carnivore conservation. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, McCormick Lecture Hall, March 9, 4:10 p.m. |
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Fly Fishing Film Tour, Mar 11-12
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
The national Fly Fishing Film Tour is coming to Maine on March 11 and 12 at Frontier Cafe and Cinema in Brunswick. |
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Why Wild Places Need to Stay Wild, Mar 10
Event - Posted - Thursday, March 04, 2010
Panel Discussion with Bernd Heinrich, Robert Kimber, Richard Fectaeu and Meg Gilmartin. Followed by Question and Answer period. March 10 at 7pm, UMaine Farmington, Roberts Room C23. |
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Lurking in the Trees
Event - Posted - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
A documentary about the devastating impact of the invasive Asian Long-horned Beetle. The movie will be shown March 17, 6PM, Lisbon Falls, UMaine Cooperative Extension Office (pre-registration requested); April 15, 6:30 PM, Augusta, Pine Tree State Arboretum; May 20, 6:30 PM, Belfast, Belfast Free Library. |
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Maritime film series set
Event - Posted - Wednesday, March 03, 2010
This month, The Apprenticeshop partners with Maine Boats, Home & Harbors to present In Our Wake: Maine's Maritime Heritage on Film, a series of screenings of historic films in Bucksport and Rockland. |
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The National Parks: The Morning of Creation, Mar 3
Announcement - Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The series finale covers the years 1946-80. Following World War II, the parks see a dramatic increase in visitors, resulting in a billion-dollar campaign to improve facilities and infrastructure. MPBN, March 3, 8PM. |
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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Sunday, February 28, 2010
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation news stories and events. Articles are posted regularly. Be sure to check not only today's stories, but take a look at the headlines from the past several days as well. Recent articles often come to our attention a few days after they are published. |
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Winter Tree Identification, Mar 9
Event - Posted - Sunday, February 28, 2010
On March 9 from 12 Noon - 2P M, Morten Moesswilde, District Forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead a field workshop on tree and shrub identification at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. |
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Protecting the Nature of Maine, Feb 28
Announcement - Friday, February 26, 2010
A documentary film about the first fifty years of the Natural Resources Council of Maine will be broadcast on MPBN Feb 28 at 10:30PM. |
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Letter: Let feds do registry
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 20, 2010
The biggest myth in the debate over a saltwater angler’s license for Maine is that if the state fails to act, anglers will be “sending their money to Washington.” Right now it makes more sense to let the feds proceed with their own registry. If the fee charged by the feds is intolerably high, Maine can always establish a state registry or license. |
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Editorial: Sardine Era Ends
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 20, 2010
The imminent closing of the sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor marks the end of an era in Maine. Like the ends of other dominant industries, such as shoes, poultry and textiles, the news is partly a failure of policy and partly an inevitability that comes in a changing world. Instead wishing for its return, policymakers should redouble their efforts to rebuild Maine’s economy with jobs tied to 21st century demands. |
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Town eyes possible future in lobster processing for closing cannery
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 20, 2010
Bumble Bee Seafoods, which has owned the former Stinson’s sardine cannery in Gouldsboro since 2004, announced Wednesday that it plans to close it in mid-April. The likelihood of another sardine company acquiring the plant is nil, so efforts will be made to help the displaced workers find other jobs and to see whether there might be another commercial use for the property. |
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Lubec's fishermen turn to the sea, and a life on the edge
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 20, 2010
Loren Lank died tragically in a boating accident on a dragger while harvesting urchins in the Cobscook Bay area Wednesday afternoon. Lank's body was recovered form the frigid waters that night. The search for his shipmate, Preston Logan, 19, of Roque Bluffs continued Thursday. Since December 2008, the Lubec area has lost three fishing vessels, five fishermen, a clammer and a periwinkle harvester. |
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Baldacci seeks wind power cooperation
Bangor Daily News - Saturday, February 20, 2010
Gov. John Baldacci was in Washington, D.C., on Friday to discuss opportunities for more regional cooperation between Atlantic Coast states and the federal government for developing offshore wind energy facilities. The same day in Augusta, a group of critics of Maine’s wind power policies held a press conference just outside of Baldacci’s office calling for a statewide moratorium on new permits for land-based wind farms. Baldacci promptly rejected the idea of a moratorium. |
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Citizens' task force calls for wind power moratorium
Capital Weekly - Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power -- a coalition of citizens advocating responsible, science based, economically and environmentally sound approaches to Maine’s energy policy -- is calling for a statewide moratorium on wind power. A recording of a wind turbine was turned on. When TV news crews tried to conduct interviews, they had to ask that the noise be turned off so they could finish the interviews. |
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Editorial: Door is finally opening to more N-power plants
Portland Press Herald - Saturday, February 20, 2010
A 30-year dry spell in the construction of new nuclear reactors could be ending, and rightly so. While nuclear power has its problems, it also complements a national energy strategy that is focused on reducing the amount of fossil fuels that power our economy. |
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Wind energy interview
Other - Saturday, February 20, 2010
WGAN Radio - Chris O'Neil talks about the Friends of Maine's Mountains and the Citizens Task Force on Wind Power. |
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Editorial: Exploring alternative energy production
Herald Gazette - Saturday, February 20, 2010
The opponents to wind power are concerned with the pace at which its development is occurring in the state of Maine. Skepticism and caution are necessary anytime new industries and possibly lucrative business opportunities develop. The last thing we need in all of this debate, however, is a "not in my backyard" attitude, which serves a few individuals well but does a disservice to society as a whole. |
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For the love of herring
Herald Gazette - Saturday, February 20, 2010
With the impending closure of the last sardine factory in Maine and lots of wrangling, finger-pointing and politics, poets Karin Spitfire and Gary Lawless are calling for 2010 to be the Year of the Sardine, a year of celebrating our fishy roots and raising a ruckus to encourage the proliferation and propagation of herring. |
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Group protests outside Cabela's
WCSH-TV6 - Saturday, February 20, 2010
Protesters stood outside Cabela's in Scarborough Saturday, condemning the company's sponsorship of a wolf killing derby in Idaho. |
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Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife dies
Other - Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sam Hamilton, 54, the director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, died Saturday afternoon after suffering an apparent heart attack at a Colorado ski resort. |
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Wind Moratorium Request
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, February 19, 2010
Governor John Baldacci is being asked to issue an executive order that would put a halt to the permitting and construction of all grid-scale industrial wind projects in Maine. Speakers at a press conference this morning in Augusta organized by the "Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power" expressed concerns about low-frequency noise produced by wind turbines.. |
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Weld sets two hearings on wind power, zoning
Lewiston Sun Journal - Friday, February 19, 2010
The Planning Board is holding a hearing Feb. 22 on a proposed six-month moratorium on wind power projects. The hearing will also address the revised Shoreland Zoning Ordinance. |
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Opinion: As Dixmont Goes…
Other - Friday, February 19, 2010
Maine Ahead - Recently, the town of Dixmont voted to effectively ban wind energy development. Unless this unduly restrictive ordinance is challenged, wind energy in Maine could be irreparably set back before it has really gotten off the ground. |
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Federal Funds to Help Convert Maine Schools to Wood-Based Heat
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, February 19, 2010
Six school and university oil-to-wood heating projects in Maine are sharing more than $3.2 million in federal Recovery Act money. The money will partially fund energy conversions for five school systems across the state and the UMaine Cooperative Extension's Presque Isle office. |
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Last U.S. sardine cannery to close
Herald Gazette - Friday, February 19, 2010
Employees at Prospect Harbor’s Stinson Sardine Cannery, the last in Maine and the United States, learned this week that they will be out of a job after April 18. Bumble Bee Foods announced it will close Stinson within 60 days because of continuing reductions of total allowable catch of herring in New England.. The plant currently employs 127 full- and part-time workers. |
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Wind project advancing
Lewiston Sun Journal - Friday, February 19, 2010
Carthage Selectmen hope to know within the next few weeks whether 320 acres known for a century as town property is really owned by the town. If so, they may be included in a wind turbine project proposed by Patriot Renewables LLC of Quincy, Mass. |
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Letter: Use reason in clean energy debate
Portland Press Herald - Friday, February 19, 2010
The U.S. remains vulnerable to the mercurial political landscape of the Middle East and other oil producing regions. The threat of global warming has led to a ''green movement,'' with the call for clean, renewable energy sources. But clean energy sources themselves have come under intense scrutiny. We must make educated, balanced decisions with an eye toward the greater good. |
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Fishing limits doom cannery, may hurt others
Portland Press Herald - Friday, February 19, 2010
The pending new fishing limits that led to the decision to close the Bumble Bee sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor were based on unclear scientific evidence and may do other economic damage in Maine, some industry officials say. The federal government is poised to impose a new quota for the next three years that will reduce the total allowable catch of Atlantic herring. From Cape Cod to the Canadian border, the catch will be reduced by more than 50 percent. |
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Letter: Main Street gets bill
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 19, 2010
Let’s see if I have this straight: Fraser executives get rewarded with large bonuses for bringing the company to the verge of bankruptcy. And the rank and file save it from bankruptcy by agreeing last week to take an 8.5 percent pay cut. As the old saying goes, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” |
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Employers say loss of rail would carry consequences
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 19, 2010
Several of northern Maine’s largest employers warn that the loss of Aroostook County’s only railroad would cause ripple effects throughout the state. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railroad is seeking approval to abandon 240 miles of railroad between Millinocket and Madawaska in the face of mounting debts. The federal government has denied a request for millions in stimulus dollars to purchase MMA’s rail lines. “It is inconceivable that the largest county east of the Mississippi, and whose economy is largely dependent on the movement of natural resources, would be cut off from rail service," said MDOT Commissioner David Cole. |
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Tidal power structure bound for Eastport
Bangor Daily News - Friday, February 19, 2010
Ocean Renewable Power Co.’s underwater Turbine Generator Unit, or TGU, designed to harness tidal power in Cobscook Bay near Eastport, will have a capacity rating of 60 kilowatts, making it the largest ocean energy device deployed in U.S. waters. |
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Wind Power Opponents Seek Executive Order
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, February 19, 2010
A group of wind power opponents is asking Gov. John Baldacci to put all of the state's new wind turbine projects on hold. The Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power says the state needs to weigh the negative impacts these projects may have on public health and the environment. Wind power supporters, however, say the group lacks any real evidence to support their position. |
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Natural Resources Council of Maine
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A Vision for the North Woods | | The long-simmering debate over the future of Maine's northern woodlands is about to move back to the... | | 3/9/2010 12:00:00 AM |
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