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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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Arsenic study gives local schools SPARK
Capital Weekly - Friday, August 20, 2010
The Maranacook, Hall-Dale and Monmouth school districts are participating in a public health research study examining the potential link between arsenic exposure in children and the development of cognitive skills. The research study, Strategic Plan for Arsenic Research in Kids (SPARK) is a collaborative project between Columbia University and the University of New Hampshire and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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Letter: Good energy policy aids economy, environment
Kennebec Journal - Friday, August 20, 2010
As a result of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) law I sponsored during the last legislative session, Maine received $30 million in federal money to jump-start this program, which will help reduce homeowner’s dependence on foreign oil and create jobs. |
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Mothers speak out against controversial chemical
Kennebec Journal - Friday, August 20, 2010
"The shocking truth is that BPA is playing hormone havoc with pregnant women and children everywhere," said Cheryl Denis, leader of Mom to Mom of Maine. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection is considering a ban on the manufacture, sale or distribution of certain products aimed at children that contain bisphenol-A. |
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Mitchell critical of plan to eliminate environmental board
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 20, 2010
Libby Mitchell, the Democratic nominee for Maine governor, criticized independent candidate Eliot Cutler on Thursday for proposing to eliminate the Board of Environmental Protection if elected. On Monday, Cutler released a plan to restructure government that included elimination of the board. Instead, Cutler would create a three-judge appellate court to review decisions made by the department and other state rulemakers. But Mitchell said that's not enough. |
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Maine tourism gets its glow back
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 20, 2010
Maine's tourism industry is rebounding from last year's miserable summer, and the state's restaurants, campgrounds and hotels are getting a much-needed boost in income. |
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Legislative panel endorses Portland man for PUC post
Portland Press Herald - Friday, August 20, 2010
David Littell, the Baldacci administration's top environmental enforcer for the last five years, won a legislative panel's solid endorsement Thursday to become a member of the Public Utilities Commission. The vote virtually ensured Littell's confirmation by the Senate when it meets next week. |
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First Wind's first-half revenue and loss doubles
Other - Friday, August 20, 2010
First Wind Holdings Inc., a Boston-based wind power project developer, saw its operating revenue for the first half of the year nearly double to $40.7 million for the first six months of 2010, compared to $20.9 million a year earlier. Operating loss also doubled during the first half of the year, to $42.6 million from $21.4 million. First Wind, which has wind projects that are operational in Maine, New York, Hawaii and Utah, and is developing a project in Vermont, said it expects net losses to continue and its use of cash for operating activities to grow during the next several years. |
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Bowdoin grad sculpts around nature in Peaks-Kenny
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
Artist Wade Kavanaugh is in the process of building site-specific, utilitarian sculptures at Peaks-Kenny State Park in Dover-Foxcroft. The artwork — 12 picnic tables built to complement nature — is administered by the Maine Art Commission’s Percent for Art program and was commissioned by the Department of Conservation. |
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Damage minimal in kelp plant fire
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
Crews were back to work as usual Thursday after a fire the previous night caused “minor” damage at the North American Kelp plant in Waldoboro. The company harvests and processes sea kelp for use in the agricultural and horticultural industries. |
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UMPI professor’s study extends to national park
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
Dr. Stuart Gelder, emeritus professor of biology at UMaine at Presque Isle, returned last month from a research trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He conducted the first survey of crayfish worms in America's most visited national park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The research could open the doors for a much larger project that would involve multiple scientists and funding through the National Science Foundation. |
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Maine BEP OKs landfill cleanup plan
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection on Thursday ordered the former owner of the HoltraChem factory in Orrington to remove two large landfills from a site blamed for leaching massive quantities of mercury into the Penobscot River. The BEP rejected Mallinckrodt Corp.’s appeal of a 2008 cleanup order of the HoltraChem site from the Maine DEP. But the board agreed to allow Mallinckrodt to leave three additional landfills on site after upgrading systems meant to prevent and detect pollution of nearby groundwater sources. |
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Littell gets unanimous PUC vote
Capitol News Service - Friday, August 20, 2010
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner David Littell drew a lot questions, but won over GOP lawmakers to get a 12-0 recommendation of the Legislature’s Utilities Committee for confirmation as one of three commissioners of the Public Utilities Commission. |
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Bangor’s energy audit paying off
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
Bangor has invested nearly $12 million — a majority on the city’s many schools — and paybacks are ahead of schedule. Of the $1.2 million invested into what are known as general fund facilities, the city’s payback period has gone from about nine years to six years. |
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State agencies get $7M for weatherization
Bangor Daily News - Friday, August 20, 2010
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday it will distribute nearly $120 million across the nation to bolster the Weatherization Assistance Program, with $7 million going to agencies in Maine. The $7 million earmarked for Maine will be divided among six Maine agencies from Presque Isle to South Paris. “Maine has some of the oldest housing in the country,” Gov. John Baldacci said, adding that the state is also home to some of the nation’s “harshest winters.” |
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Maine, NH, Vt. get energy efficiency funding
Associated Press - Friday, August 20, 2010
Agencies in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire will share over $14 million in federal funding to to install renewable energy systems and cutting-edge technologies in homes to help families save on their energy bills. The Department of Energy grants include $7 million for Maine, $4.7 million for Vermont and $3.1 million for New Hampshire. |
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Gubernatorial Candidates' Forum: Two Independents not Invited
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Friday, August 20, 2010
When several forestry associations (Maine Forest Products Council, Forest Resources Association, Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine, and Maine Pulp and Paper Association) hold a candidates' forum in Brewer next month, they'll be looking for answers on the future of the Maine woods from the state's next governor. But if that person turns out to be Kevin Scott or Shawn Moody, they may have some more questions. Neither of the Independent candidates were invited. A spokesman says the decision was based on perceived candidate viability. |
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Maine regulators consider banning bisphenol-A
Associated Press - Thursday, August 19, 2010
A proposal to ban the chemical bisphenol-A from baby bottles, sippy cups, water bottles and other reusable food and beverage containers is getting a show of support from parents, scientists, doctors and nurses. |
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Wind energy and politics
Other - Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Economist - The odd thing about conflicts over wind is that, usually, each side claims to be greener than the other. Opponents say a unique landscape or seascape is being overshadowed, to the detriment of tourists and residents alike. Wind power does undoubtedly pose some hazard to birds and other fauna; some say it harms humans. Others simply find wind turbines ugly, an eyesore in any location. Yet, compared with other power sources, the green credentials of wind are pretty convincing: it creates no waste, uses no water and (unlike solar panels) doesn’t need much room. As an example of a green-on-green row, take one in Maine, where environmentalists squabble over plans to expand a wind farm on the wilderness of Kibby Mountain. |
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Portland's Bayside Trail formally opens in Maine
Associated Press - Thursday, August 19, 2010
Rep. Chellie Pingree joined local dignitaries at Thursday's ribbon cutting in congratulating the many partners who worked on the 1.2-mile urban Bayside Trail in Portland. |
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Opinion: Ragged Mountain wind power development
Herald Gazette - Thursday, August 19, 2010
It has come to the attention of several property owners and concerned citizens in the Camden/Rockport/ Hope and other neighborhoods on or near the Snow Bowl and Penobscot Bay that plans are under way to develop wind power on Ragged Mountain. We have begun to educate ourselves about the potential advantages and disadvantages. |
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Visits to Maine's State Parks Skyrocket
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, August 19, 2010
The great weather this summer has been a boon to Maine's state parks. Park officials say through the end of July, attendance was up 32 percent over last year. |
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Maine Energy Corridor Panel Taking Shape
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Thursday, August 19, 2010
A legislative committee considers four nominees to the new panel, responsible for establishing a process to identify rights-of-way for the so-called "energy corridors." |
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Wind-turbine sections squeeze through 1935 Rumford bridge
Lewiston Sun Journal - Thursday, August 19, 2010
Mid-afternoon on Wednesday Maine State Police troopers were escorting a huge wind-turbine tower section through Rumford and Mexico when the convoy met a steel truss bridge built in 1935 over the Androscoggin River. Ironically, the turbine parts traveled through Dixfield, in which two anti-wind power groups were holding an meeting Wednesday night on the noise and economic effects of industrial wind projects sited on Maine mountains. Additionally, Rumford selectmen will hold a workshop with their Wind Power Advisory Committee on Aug. 30 to work on the committee's draft wind power ordinance. |
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Letter: Verifiable facts, please
Lewiston Sun Journal - Thursday, August 19, 2010
Those of us who have been trying to spread the facts about mountaintop industrial wind in Maine have had a hard time getting the word out. For the most part, local media outlets have been happy to spread the "party line" that "wind is good, wind is green, and that developers and politicians are working with the best interests of Maine as their primary goal." |
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Residents say state rules for wind farms lacking
Lewiston Sun Journal - Thursday, August 19, 2010
Panelists and townspeople at a public hearing Wednesday night blasted what they believe are insufficient state regulations to govern the half-dozen or so wind farms proposed for western Maine. The hearing was sponsored by the River Valley Alliance and the Friends of Maine's Mountains, groups that oppose such developments. |
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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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