by Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story State regulators on Wednesday endorsed Plum Creek’s historic development plan for nearly 1,000 house lots, two large resorts and hundreds of thousands of acres of land conservation in the Moosehead Lake region. Despite pleas and strong words from plan opponents, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission did Read More
Northeast Makes History with First U.S. Auction of Carbon Credits
Auction expected to change the way the U.S. fights global warming NRCM * The Nature Conservancy * Conservation Law Foundation * Environment NE Today, in an historic and collaborative effort to help fight global warming, six states – Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont – will participate in the nation’s first auction of Read More
Fate of Moosehead Lake in LURC’s Hands
Citizens speak out, Commission deliberates Natural Resources Council of Maine * Maine Audubon Bangor, ME, September 23, 2008 — Maine people may learn this week what will happen with Plum Creek’s development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region. Today, citizens from across Maine gathered in Bangor to read from more than 1,500 letters sent to Read More
Plum Creek’s Lily Bay Development Throws Entire Plan out of Balance
Statement by Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director Good morning. Over the next two days, members of Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission will hold one of their most significant deliberations ever. The outcome of Plum Creek’s rezoning application could determine the fate of a special region of Maine – Moosehead Lake – for generations to come. Read More
Plum Creek Process a “Dangerous Precedent”
by Jon Lund Bangor Daily News op-ed The process for consideration of Plum Creek’s Moosehead Lake development plan has gone badly astray and would set a dangerous precedent that Maine people would live with for years to come. That’s the substance of what I and seven other attorneys with decades of experience with Maine’s environmental Read More
Penobscot River Project Progresses
Trust to buy three dams for removal By Gale Courey Toensing Indian Country Today news story OLD TOWN, Maine – Partners in the Penobscot River Restoration Project gathered on the banks of the Penobscot Indian Nation’s sacred river to celebrate a major step in their project to restore indigenous sea-run fish species to nearly 1,000 Read More
Maine Conservationists Reach Milestone in Plan to Buy 3 Dams
by Katie Zezima New York Times news story BOSTON — A Maine environmental coalition announced Thursday that it had raised the $25 million it needed to buy three dams from a power company under an agreement to restore a number of fish species in the Penobscot River. The coalition, the Penobscot River Restoration Trust, will Read More
Penobscot River Restoration Trust to Buy Three Dams from PPL Corporation
by the Penobscot River Restoration Trust Old Town, ME: Today, on the banks of the Penobscot River in Old Town, Maine, at 11 a.m., partners in the Penobscot River Restoration Project will announce they are taking a major step forward in this historic effort to restore Atlantic salmon, American shad, river herring, and seven other Read More
Ecologists Say Plum Creek Forest Is Old; Not Old Growth
by Susan Sharon Maine Public Radio news story A few weeks ago we brought you the story of a unique forest not far from the town of Monson in Elliottsville Township. Big Wilson Stream Forest is owned by the Plum Creek Timber Company and has been slated for cutting. Some environmentalists who’ve visited the 220 Read More