Maine Environmental News

Letter: Working with wind
Bangor Daily News - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
In Oakfield, we negotiated an agreement with a wind power company that will generate revenue for the town and potentially reduce taxes for our residents. We’d be happy to share our experience with other towns.

Maine Split Into Two States?
WGME-TV13 - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A Maine Republican Representative wants to divide Maine into two states - Maine and Northern Massachusetts. Rep. Henry Joy says environmentalists have a plan to take control of 10 million acres in northern Maine and hand it over to the government for preservation.

Possible Bigfoot Sighting In Leeds
WGME-TV13 - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Gossip is flying in the town of Leeds, but it's not typical talk for small town Maine. A local couple says Bigfoot is real and he's living nearby.

"Eaglecam" Documents Bald Eagle Laying Egg
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The Gorham-based Biodiversity Research Institute's remote camera documented the newly-laid egg yesterday. If all goes well, the newly-laid eagle egg is expected to hatch around April 10.

Wood Pellet Mill Fined for Safety Violations
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The U.S. Labor Department is proposing $27,000 in fines against Geneva Wood Fuels pellet mill after an explosion last year at the plant in Strong.

Lawmakers Consider Amending Ban on Landfill Expansions
Maine Public Broadcasting Network - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that would amend a 21-year-old state law that prohibits the expansion of commercial landfills. The Crossroads Landfill in Norridgewock that wants an option to expand. But the company faces opposition.

Letter: ‘False’ arguments
Times Record - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The arguments by the proponents of a saltwater registry soliciting “fear of the feds” and “let’s keep the money” have nothing to do with managing the catch for the preservation of the species.

Morris Farm tenants pull up stakes
Times Record - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The farmers and animals who have inhabited the educational Morris Farm in Wiscasset for five years are leaving the property. The news comes as the farm eyes a slate of changes aimed to help it rebound from a year that saw all full- and part-time staff laid off in 2009.

College of the Atlantic launches sustainable venture incubator
Bar Harbor Times - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
College of the Atlantic has launched an innovative Sustainable Venture Incubator. This undergraduate program, shepherding both emerging for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs, appears to be the only one of its kind in the nation.

Opinion: Outdoor Issues Remain Unresolved in Augusta
George Smith Blog - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
All of the critical issues of concern to outdoor recreationists remain unresolved at the legislature, including: ATV stops by game wardens; installation of culverts to allow fish passage; a saltwater anglers’ license; invasive plants; guns in Acadia National Park; the merger of natural resource agencies and the budgets of those agencies.

Letters: Portland students support wind power project
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
We believe the benefits of constructing a wind farm in Highland Plantation outweigh the supposed negatives....Residents should not worry so much about the noise because the wind turbines will be built far enough away where people do not hear them.

Add one more to three R's: Recycling
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Lincoln Middle School introduced a student-designed cafeteria recycling system Monday that could be a model for reducing waste throughout Portland schools.

A vision for the North Woods
Portland Press Herald - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A group called the Keeping Maine's Forests steering committee is working on a proposal to protect millions of acres of the working forest from further development. The committee is close to having a final plan and will deliver it to federal officials as early as this month. They rejected the idea of turning any of the land into a national forest or park, to win the support of landowners. "I am at a loss as to why the political leadership seems so adamantly opposed to it. We should talk about it," says Jon Lund, publisher of the Maine Sportsman magazine.

Rockport to consider small scale wind proposal
Herald Gazette - Monday, March 08, 2010
In the Spring Mountain Highlands subdivision 50 percent of the land that will be set aside as undeveloped could be the best area to locate small wind energy systems. No formal request has been made for a wind power site, but some residents of the subdivision are discussing the possibility.

Fishermen to feds: more resources needed
Capital Weekly - Monday, March 08, 2010
U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe Friday hosted a session of top fishery representatives at the Maine Fishermen's Forum that focused on the pressures facing fishermen in light of increasing federal regulation and decreasing funding for research of very areas being regulated. Those demands have led to crumbling relationships for many stakeholders that need serious work to mitigate and repair.

Energy independence is agency's goal
Morning Sentinel - Monday, March 08, 2010
In 2001, the New England governors, plus the premiers of Canada's Maritime provinces, pledged to lower the region's carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2010. That goal has not been reached. In 2006, the author of a report from Environment Northeast explained how this region can meet its ambitious emissions aims. Now that author, Michael Stoddard, will take charge of a new state authority -- the Efficiency Maine Trust.

Officials to discuss Cascade site cleanup
Morning Sentinel - Monday, March 08, 2010
Town, state and federal officials are scheduled to meet today to discuss whether federal grant money can be redirected toward cleaning up the site of the fire-ravaged former Cascade Woolen Mill.

Opinion: Nuclear power expensive, can't be counted on to solve our probl
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 08, 2010
As nuclear becomes the most expensive form of new power on the market, it becomes the least effective option in our goal to displace foreign oil and other fossil fuels.

How planning, muscle and nails can result in happy trails
Portland Press Herald - Monday, March 08, 2010
As trails manager for Portland Trails, Jaime Parker spends his days doing projects that help keep the nonprofit land trust's 35 miles of trails around Greater Portland accessible.

Musher wins Can-Am crown for 3rd time
Associated Press - Monday, March 08, 2010
Despite warm weather, New Hampshire musher Matt Carstens set a blazing pace to win Maine's 250-mile Can-Am Crown dog sled race for the third time. The race takes the dogsled teams across the wilderness of northern Maine.

Clammers seek relief from predatory moon snails
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
Clam diggers Down East are fighting a devastating predator, moon snails, and are desperate for help.

Can-Am features great conditions
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
In a race that seems to defy expectations with above freezing temperatures, the 18th annual Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown International 250 Mile Sled Dog Race could see some of its fastest finish times to date. Twenty-five mushers took off Saturday morning from Fort Kent before an estimated crowd of 8,500. As of 5:30 p.m. Sunday three teams had arrived at the final checkpoint in Allagash and were projected to reach Fort Kent just after 3:30 a.m. Monday.

Can wind farms, fisheries coexist?
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
At the annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum, fishermen heard from more than a half-dozen speakers involved in Maine’s aggressive efforts to turn the nearly always windy gulf into a giant powerhouse. State officials argue that the Gulf of Maine is an ideal place for massive wind farms. But hundreds of massive wind turbine platforms and all of the gear-snagging cables that likely would come with them could affect fish and Maine’s commercial fishing industry.

Fishery talks center on research, marketing
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
Two concepts worked their way into more than one seminar at the annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum. In some seminars, fishermen and regulators agreed that more research is needed for scientists to better understand the relative health of commercial fish stocks in the Gulf of Maine. In other seminars, industry officials said more and better marketing is needed to help boost the price and popularity of seafood from Maine.

Pipeline company opposes proposed gas fee
Bangor Daily News - Monday, March 08, 2010
A proposed new fee on natural gas shipped through pipelines in Maine has drawn strong opposition from Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Co., the largest pipeline owner in the state. The fee, no more than 2 cents per 5,000 cubic feet of gas carried by the pipeline, is estimated to raise $1.1 million a year and would be split between DEP for partial funding of hazardous materials cleanup, and the Maine Emergency Management Agency for training to handle a natural gas leak.

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