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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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Jetport project tapping Earth's energy
Portland Press Herald - Wednesday, August 18, 2010
When the Portland International Jetport's $75 million expansion opens in 2012, it will be heated and cooled by Maine's largest geothermal system. The system is expected to cut the amount of oil that would otherwise be used for the new terminal by 90 percent, nearly 102,000 gallons a year. |
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Rotarians hear Cutler’s vision of a restructured government
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler, speaking to a group of Bangor Rotary Club members Tuesday, offered specific proposals about how he would streamline state government. Cutler said he would eliminate the Board of Environmental Protection and take the permitting and licensing functions away from the Land Use Regulation Commission. |
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Fly Fishing Museum Opens in Rangeley Region
George Smith Blog - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The catch of a lifetime is the Rangeley Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum, constructed in the small village of Oquossoc just ten minutes west of Rangeley. It’s an astonishing collection that celebrates the region’s fly fishing history. The always-running audio and video presentations offer a wonderful array including the Sportsmen’s Show in 1900 with Ed Grant and Fly Rod Crosby who shocked the attendees with her costume that was six inches above her ankles. Scandalous! |
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Buchholz cruises through heartland in 100-mile-per-gallon car
Herald Gazette - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The time has arrived for practical, 100-mile-per-gallon cars that can be built on a budget of about $10,000, said designers of those vehicles. A trio of prototype vehicles will cross the heartland of America Aug. 15-20 in Rally Green, a fuel economy rally/demonstration for high-mileage vehicles. The 2,200-mile rally will be a road test for these do-it-yourself designed cars built to attain 100 miles per gallon. Entrants Jack McCornack and Jay Perdue are noted inventors. The third entrant is Rally Green organizer Bill Buchholz of the Camden, Maine, area. |
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Most object to proposed mountain ordinance
Lewiston Sun Journal - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Most of the approximately 20 people who turned out for Monday's public hearing on a proposed Mountain District Ordinance in Byron appeared to be against it, and not because it would essentially ban the development of a wind project. Instead, those who spoke were concerned with the possible affect on logging, mining and future plans landowners might have. |
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Editorial: Maine should examine how it handles data
Lewiston Sun Journal - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
A blatant example of poor record-keeping became apparent in a story about the critical decisions that defined the state's expedited wind-zone process. During the final two meetings, regulators discussed and agreed upon maps designating where developers could use the speeded-up process to allow wind power projects. Unfortunately, there were no minutes or summaries kept. Would it have been so hard to video tape these discussions? While retailers like Google and Amazon are analyzing our every move on the Web, obvious information of public importance is ignored by the state. |
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Crops early, plentiful: 'It's excellent for farmers'
Lewiston Sun Journal - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Blackie Labbe of Blackie’s farm stands in Lewiston and Auburn was planning to pick pumpkins Tuesday morning. A whole month early. Wallingford’s Fruit House in Auburn opens for pick-your-own season Saturday. Two weeks early. Jill Agnew’s peaches and pears over at Willow Pond Farm in Sabattus? Eleven days early. It’s a summer of happy growers and happy fruit. |
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Energy facility on agenda
Morning Sentinel - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Residents will learn tonight about the possibility of Madison Paper Industries adding a $25-million wood biomass energy facility at its site. Anticipated to add eight to 10 jobs, the facility would use bark byproducts and would reduce the paper mill's reliance on oil. |
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Letter: Chemical ‘well-tested’ for use in food-contact plastics
Kennebec Journal - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection meets this week to discuss the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). It is important that the agency make its recommendation based on science, and not falsehoods or mischaracterizations. BPA is well-tested and approved by federal regulatory agencies for use in food can linings, food-contact containers and other polycarbonate plastic products, such as bicycle helmets and sports safety goggles. |
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Opinion: Wind opponent's claims mix fact and fantasy
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Jonathan Carter charged wind advocates of "distortions and misrepresentations." But he then made a series of assertions that defy logic and have no basis in fact. Probably the most egregious misstatement is that there really aren't any pollution savings from wind power – that the energy reserves necessary for when the wind stops cancel out any gains in carbon savings. One Maine editorial put this claim in its place: It's "nonsensical." When the wind is blowing, the energy directly reduces power produced somewhere else, and in Maine and New England, that's almost always fossil fuels. |
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Portland pier owners drop request on pleasure boat docking
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Pier owners who have proposed relaxing Portland's waterfront zoning restrictions have dropped their request to allow an additional 50 feet of dock space for pleasure boats on each pier. More than 70 lobstermen signed a petition opposing the proposal earlier this month and presented it to the City Council. |
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Clean energy can drive New England's recovery, economist says
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Charles Colgan, professor of public policy at the University of Southern Maine, says the clean-energy economy can create a new foundation for growth. But it's unclear if Northeast states and their Canadian counterparts can agree on regional strategies for renewable energy sources and transmission corridors. Nova Scotia, for example, recently agreed to work with Maine on tidal and offshore wind energy research. Nova Scotia is trying to get hydroelectric power from Newfoundland and Labrador, but faces opposition from Quebec, which is promoting its own hydro resource. |
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Letter: Fresh air on wind
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The recent articles by Naomi Schalit and the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting have been a breath of fresh air. For too long local media outlets have been spreading the “feel good” propaganda of the industrial wind developers and their politician friends, without giving equal time to those who would present the actual facts about mountaintop industrial wind development in Maine. |
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Letter: Good journalism
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Public service journalism, such as the series on wind power development in Maine, is a rarity these days. The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting and the Bangor Daily News deserve credit for reporting and publishing such important series as the recent stories on wind power in Maine. |
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Letter: A wind perspective
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
There has been an abundance of inaccurate press about wind energy in Maine. Articles by Naomi Schalit and Jonathan Carter are recognizable as agenda-laden propaganda. These articles are a poor oversimplification of the difficult energy and economic issues we face. Key points are being ignored. |
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Sparse rainfall spurs concern
Bangor Daily News - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The lack of consistent rain this year — which has reduced the Piscataquis River to a near trickle and caused grass to crunch underfoot — now is prompting concerns about water quality, as well as grass and forest fires. The USGS has been operating a gauge on the Piscataquis for 109 years, and the flow has never been as low on an Aug. 16 as it was on Monday. |
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Camden Named a Top 25 Foliage Town
Bar Harbor Times - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Yankee Magazine's Sep/Oct 2010 issue names the top 25 towns in New England for fall foliage travel. Camden, Maine, ties with Waitsfield, Vermont, for sixth place. |
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Wind power Web site launched
Capital Weekly - Monday, August 16, 2010
The Maine Renewable Energy Association has launched the first and only online resource for wind power information in Maine — windforme.org. According to MREA, the site is a clearinghouse for information about wind power in Maine, with resources provided to those interested in the development of the industry. |
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New England grid chief: Cooperate on wind power
Associated Press - Monday, August 16, 2010
A cooperative approach among New England states holds the best hope for meeting the region's renewable energy goals. The regional approach shares the risk associated with expensive wind power projects and gives a boost to economies of scale, said Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO New England Inc. For all its promise, wind power output won't grow by leaps and bounds overnight. |
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Opinion: Electric cars are cleaner, even when the power comes from coal
Portland Press Herald - Monday, August 16, 2010
Even with the source of electricity coming from the most polluting methods of production, in this case, coal, electric vehicles will produce significantly less CO2 and other toxic pollutants into the atmosphere than produced by gasoline engines. |
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Birds ‘teach’ their audiences
Times Record - Monday, August 16, 2010
Hope Douglas, founder of a raptor rescue organization that recently moved to Dresden, uses terms like “teacher” and “faculty member” to describe the birds in her care. She might also use the term “motivational speaker” to refer to the owls, eagles, falcons and hawks in her group. |
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Why can’t I breathe in our backyard?
Times Record - Monday, August 16, 2010
Nat King Cole sang “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer." I never thought that those “hazy ... days of summer” would cause my difficulty in breathing! The culprit for the "hazy days" we experience in Maine is typically ozone and particulates. If you experience respiratory or cardiovascular symptoms on Air Quality Index alert days, consult with a health-care professional, as needed. |
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Colgan: Economic Recovery Will Take Longer
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Monday, August 16, 2010
USM professor and former state economist Charles Colgan says, "I had suggested earlier this year that we were poised at the edge of the woods and might be about to get out [of the Great Recession] in 2010, but recent events now suggest that we may be, like Al Pacino in the Godfather, dragged back in against our will into continued economic distress." |
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Letter: Climate change myth
Bangor Daily News - Monday, August 16, 2010
The media promote climate change and global warming as if it were absolute fact, when it is far from it. |
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Loggers descend on Maine to take on tests of skill
Bangor Daily News - Monday, August 16, 2010
Forest Heritage Days, in its 20th year, gives people a better understanding of the history of Maine’s working forest, the jobs connected to it and the facts behind the arrangement whereby the public can use private land for recreation. |
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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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