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Maine Environmental News
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thanks for visiting Maine Environmental News, the most comprehensive online source available for links to Maine conservation news stories and events. Since the start of 2009, I have posted more than 6,000 news stories and announcements. 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 my attention a few days after they are published. Note: I will be away Aug 29 - Sep 6, 2010, and unable to post articles during that time. ~ Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE: The North Woods |
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America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Sep 2
Action Alert - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Representatives of federal agencies are traveling the country to listen to ideas for conserving our lands and waters and reconnecting Americans to the outdoors. The AGO road show will be in Maine on Sep 2 at 3-6 p.m. at the Bangor Civic Center. Don’t miss this chance to speak for the need to expand public lands in Maine. |
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Viles Arboretum seeks volunteers
Announcement - Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Viles Arboretum in Augusta is seeking volunteers to help teach environmental education programs to student, adult and family audiences all year long. Training and support will be provided by the arboretum’s new program director, Mark DesMeules. |
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Landscaping For Wildlife, Sep 4
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 28, 2010
Learn about the wide selection of native shrubs, small trees and other plants that are hardy and attractive, while providing food and shelter for our birds and wildlife. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, Sep 4, 11 a.m. |
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Oh, Ranger! Story Tour, Sep 2-6
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Visitors to Acadia National Park are invited to share their experiences with American Park Network representatives, who will be in Bar Harbor as part of the Oh, Ranger! Story Tour from Sep 2 to 6. A team will record stories of visitors' experiences at Acadia. The program is part of a national initiative to collect stories to showcase the breadth and depth of America's parks as the National Park System approaches its 100th anniversary in 2016. |
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Healthy crops topic of UM gardening forum, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Gardeners of every ilk will get the chance to learn about maintaining healthy crops during a presentation by a University of Maine Cooperative Extension researcher at the UM Rogers Farm in Stillwater on Tuesday, Aug 31 at 6 p.m. |
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Internet Trail Site for Franklin County
Announcement - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
This new website offers information on 15 mountain biking, hiking, walking, cross-country skiing, and snow shoeing trails in Western Maine. More will be added. |
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Schoodic: Where Sea meets Land, Aug 28 & 29
Announcement - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
This film is about the communities of Gouldsboro, Prospect Harbor, Corea and Winter Harbor, Maine. Maine Public TV, Aug 28 at 11:30 am and Aug 29 at 11:30 pm. |
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Open Garden Days, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The public is invited to join the Belfast Garden Club's Open Garden Days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at the Biebel Garden, 242 Fisher Road, Monroe. Visitors will discover a large organic experimental and eclectic vegetable and flower garden with soil that never needs to be plowed or rototilled due to its rich start as a "lasagna-method" garden. |
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Walks, talk focus on history of St. George River canals
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Georges River Land Trust and Montpelier: General Henry Knox Museum are co-sponsoring three free events focused on the history of the canals along the St. George River in Warren and Searsmont. On Monday, Aug 30, two guided walks will be held. Knox's efforts in constructing the canal will be the subject of the third event, an evening lecture by Mendoza at Montpelier on Sep 1 at 7 p.m. |
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Maine Woodsman Day, Aug 28
Event - Posted - Saturday, August 21, 2010
See demonstrations of wildlife carving, including with chainsaws, and hatchet-throwing. At Maine Wildlife Park, Gray, August 28, 11 a.m. |
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Mushroom talk at Belfast library, Aug 31
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
On Aug 31 at 6:30 p.m., Belfast Free Library will host a talk titled "Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada" by David Spahr.
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Palermo Preserve walk, Aug 26
Event - Posted - Friday, August 20, 2010
Professional forester and lands director for the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association, Tish Carr will lead a nature walk at 10 a.m. on Aug 26 around the Palermo Preserve. |
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Astronomer illuminates concerns about dimming starshine, Aug 27
Event - Posted - Thursday, August 19, 2010
If the stars don't look as bright as they did when we were children, it might not be that stars have lost their sparkle. It could be that we have lost our night. On Friday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m., aerospace engineer and astronomer Peter Lord will appear at the Oceanview Grange south of Tenants Harbor. He will use satellite images to illustrate the amazing effect of night lighting around the earth. |
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Treasure hunt has toxic twist
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 27, 2010
Treasure hunter Greg Brooks wants to put his sea salvage skills to work removing an estimated 16,000 pounds of mercury from a 66-year-old shipwreck off the Maine coast. He says the mission would defuse an environmental time bomb, although scientists have concluded the wreck is best left undisturbed. |
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Letter: Energy numbers don’t lie
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 27, 2010
The $43 billion dollars in support of only 5 percent of our energy seems lavish. Here is the reason: Biomass, wind, solar, etc. are very dilute resources. A tremendous investment in “stuff” is required to produce very small amounts of energy. Coal will be a difficult act to follow. On a dollars-per-million-British-thermal-unit basis, coal may cost $2, while natural gas may cost $9. If we are really serious about this carbon-in-the-atmosphere problem, electricity will become much more expensive. |
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Editorial: A Blueprint for Cutting
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 27, 2010
In addition to cutting regulations, independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler wants to consolidate state bureaucracies, including abolishing the Board of Environmental Protection. He also wants to take permitting powers away from the Land Use Regulation Commission. If a new governor wants to subversively neuter government, rather than make it more efficient, voters are wise to be wary of such proposals. Similarly, if the next governor fails to understand the complexity of the checks and balances within state regulatory departments, and sees the problem in an overly simplistic way, the unintended consequences could be catastrophic. |
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Work fatalities fall; fishing & logging still most dangerous
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 27, 2010
While forestry and logging regularly make the Bureau of Labor Statistics' list for most-dangerous jobs, the industry saw fatal injuries fall by 50 percent last year. Fatal injuries in Maine's other most-dangerous job, fishing, increased, however, and the BLS classification for both industries, "agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting," remained the most dangerous in the annual survey. |
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Coast Guard raising wind turbine in Maine
Associated Press - Friday, August 27, 2010
On Friday, workers in Southwest Harbor will raise a 70-foot turbine that will provide electrical power to homes where Coast Guard crew members and their families live. |
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Opinion: Maine’s mountains offer New England a modest alternative to Cape Wind turbines
Other - Thursday, August 26, 2010
With Cape Wind becoming an easy target in this year’s political races, it’s a natural question to ask where substitute wind farms could be built. But the rural, mountainous areas of Maine could represent our next best bet. It’s an unfortunate irony that the places where developers will get the most bang for their buck with these windmills are among the mountaintops and seascapes that make New England unique. |
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Scalloper claims fishing rights from Maine tribe
Associated Press - Thursday, August 26, 2010
A scallop boat whose captain claimed he was fishing under the authority of the Passamaquoddy Tribe was boarded by the Coast Guard and issued a violation for fishing without a proper permit. NOAA said anyone fishing for federally regulated species had to have a federal permit. |
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Editorial: Short shrift for endangered species
Times Record - Thursday, August 26, 2010
It’s not entirely surprising that endangered wild plants, birds, animals and fish get short shrift when it comes to recognizing the impact global warming might have on their populations. After all, our U.S. Senate can’t get its act together to enact even a modest climate change bill that would begin to curb greenhouse gas emissions and encourage greater investment in clean renewable energy. At least we’re consistent: We’re giving short shrift to our own survival as a species as well. |
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Letter: Yucca Mtn. is safe
Times Record - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Dozens of other tests performed on the Yucca Mountain test site proved that the “storage site” could be used safely for long-term storage of nuclear waste. |
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Northeast Fishing Protest Targets Obama's Vacation Spot
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, August 26, 2010
The view off President Obama's vacation spot on Martha's Vineyard today is likely to include a flotilla of fishermen from the Northeast protesting the administration's oversight of the industry. The protesters are upset about a new fisheries management plan in which groups called sectors are assigned quotas of species that they can divvy up among themselves. |
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Maine's broken e-mail system
Portland Phoenix - Thursday, August 26, 2010
When Naomi Schalit of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting asked for copies of e-mails between the Maine PUC and wind power companies, she did not expect to receive a cost estimate of $10,000 — nor to be required to pay $80 for the privilege of receiving that estimate. And when she asked for that exorbitant fee to be waived, as allowed in state law, she did not expect to get a revised estimate of $36,239.52. The cost is clearly outrageous, and a barrier to public access to information that belongs to the public. But here's the really surprising thing: the estimate reflects the state's actual cost to extract the information from its e-mail archive, which is so cumbersome that it's next to impossible to actually use. |
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Eastbrook Officials Approve Wind Ordinance on Split Vote
Ellsworth American - Thursday, August 26, 2010
By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the Eastbrook Comprehensive Plan Committee approved a draft of a wind energy facility ordinance despite disagreement about sound setback requirements. Wind energy company First Wind proposes constructing wind turbines in Eastbrook on Bull Hill. |
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Three trail systems to link in Augusta
Kennebec Journal - Thursday, August 26, 2010
A new easement will provide better access to the Augusta Greenway Trail on the east side of the Kennebec River -- a trail that, someday, could also connect to Viles Arboretum trails nearby. |
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Letter: Better rail system makes touring more attractive
Portland Press Herald - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Especially in states like Maine, public transportation would help the state's economy a great deal. One idea is to expand the Downeaster even farther north to connect to the Maine Eastern Railroad and out to Rockland. As a nondriving resident of Boston over the past four years, there were more than a few times I looked into traveling the coast of Maine, but it was too expensive and took a long time. |
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Letter: Not too late for Senate to pass climate, energy bill
Portland Press Herald - Thursday, August 26, 2010
As we witness the worst industry-caused environmental catastrophe in our history, the worst coal-mining disaster in 40 years and sweat through the hottest first six months of any year on record, it is clear there's never been a more critical time to move forward with a clean energy and climate policy. |
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Rainfall unlikely to curtail drought
Portland Press Herald - Thursday, August 26, 2010
While Portland broke a record set in 1901 and more than 4 inches fell in Wells, the dousing may be too late to pull the state out of potential drought conditions. |
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Opinion: Businesses central to adaptation
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Maine businesses have a wealth of technical expertise and services to offer in helping people and natural systems increase resiliency and decrease vulnerability to changing weather patterns. That makes those companies well-positioned to be at the heart of adaptation efforts and capitalize on the exploding demand, (however unfortunate) for a new adaptation marketplace. |
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Building permit for wind farm spurs challenge
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Despite consistent court rulings against them, opponents of a proposed wind farm in the Lincoln area continue to pressure town officials to reject the project. |
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Gouldsboro selectmen to sign letter of intent for cannery grant
Bangor Daily News - Thursday, August 26, 2010
Selectmen here Wednesday reversed their decision not to seek a federal grant in support of Live Lobster Co.’s plans to acquire the Stinson Seafood sardine cannery. Two weeks ago, selectmen balked when asked to sign a letter of intent to apply for a $400,000 federal grant on behalf of Live Lobster, which wants to buy the plant that closed in April. Selectmen have said there already are several lobster dealers in Gouldsboro and they didn’t think it would be proper to use government funds to give a competitor an advantage. |
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Senate confirms 70 nominations in one-day session
Kennebec Journal - Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Maine Senate on Wednesday confirmed all of Gov. John Baldacci's nominations to various state boards and courts. While nearly all were unanimously approved, one nomination sparked debate. Some Republicans questioned whether Kurt Adams should serve as a member of the UMaine System Board of Trustees. Many of Adams' opponents are those who oppose the expansion of land-based wind power, said Sen. Peter Mills. |
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$14 million CMP upgrade for wind power OK'd
Lewiston Sun Journal - Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has conditionally approved Central Maine Power's proposed $14 million upgrade of transmission lines to handle electricity from incoming wind farms. Roxbury Selectman Tim Derouche said CMP proposes to reconstruct eight miles of its transmission line from Roxbury to Rumford to provide transmission service to the 55-megawatt Record Hill Wind Project. |
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Residency list rumors aired at Roxbury meeting
Lewiston Sun Journal - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Some people worried aloud that rumors were true that names being checked were people considered anti-wind power. When asked about this, Town Clerk Nina Hodgkins, said there is a list, but it's just an annual process to verify residencies of town voters prior to upcoming elections. |
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Opinion: This Just In From Montana
New York Times - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
There is a great rift between the crowded places and the empty places. The folks who live in the empty parts of the country feel as if they’re taking care of themselves, and that Washington is a faraway place whose interference is always unwelcome. I get where they’re coming from, although I do need to point out that Montana gets $1.47 back for every dollar it sends to Washington. [Maine gets $1.40 back for every every dollar it sends to Washington.] |
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Opinion: Women's equality and climate change
Republican Journal - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
On Aug. 26, we commemorate Women’s Equality Day and reflect on the true meaning of equality. The day is important, not just to evaluate where women are in terms of representation and equal pay for equal work, but also to consider the potential for jump-starting climate negotiations and the green economy by strengthening women’s leadership in these areas. |
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Natural Resources Council of Maine
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You Can Protect Acadia | | Ever compare Acadia National Park to a piece of Swiss cheese? You should.Acadia is a majestic place ... | | 9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM |
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