News Release Today the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) filed with Maine Superior Court an appeal of the decision by Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) to approve Plum Creek’s development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region. After careful deliberation and extensive legal analysis, NRCM’s Board of Directors voted last week to authorize the Read More
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“Momentum is Building for Clean Energy Future”
Google’s Top Climate and Energy Expert Tells Maine Audience NRCM news release In a keynote address to a Portland audience Wednesday evening, a spokesperson from internet powerhouse Google described his company’s vision of a clean energy future for the United States. Dan Reicher, Google’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, predicted that renewable energy Read More
Clean Energy Jobs Expanding in Maine: 2,500 Maine Businesses Involved in Wind Power, Solar, and Energy Efficiency
NRCM news release Bangor – According to a new analysis released today by the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), the development of wind power and renewable energy and the expansion of energy efficiency programs are generating significant jobs in Maine today, and the potential for future job growth is large. “By our count, over Read More
NRCM Response to Plum Creek Decision
Brownie Carson, NRCM Executive Director “Today’s vote by the Land Use Regulation Commission approving Plum Creek’s massive development plan for Moosehead Lake is deeply unsettling.” “It is unsettling because it may result in a level of future development, traffic, and increased congestion in the Moosehead Lake region that will forever damage one of Maine’s most Read More
After Plum Creek: A Provocation
by Robert Kimber Down East magazine September 2009 Sometime this fall the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) is expected to hand down its approval of Plum Creek’s massive development plan for the Moosehead Lake region. Back in 2005, when Plum Creek first submitted its plan, a friend of mine predicted how this saga would unfold: Read More
10 Years, 430 Dams
New York Times editorial Ten years have gone by since a modest but important moment in American environmental history: the dismantling of the 917-foot-wide Edwards Dam on Maine’s Kennebec River. The Edwards Dam was the first privately owned hydroelectric dam torn down for environmental reasons (and against the owner’s wishes) by the Federal Energy Regulatory Read More
Happy 50th, NRCM
Times Record editorial During a 1965 hike with fellow poet Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsburg looked across the panorama of mountains as they stood on Glacier Peak and asked incredulously, “You mean, there’s a senator for all this?” Snyder recalls that he quickly corrected his friend, saying, “There is not a senator for all that.” Sadly, Read More
Endangered Listing for Salmon Now Includes Kennebec
by Keith Edwards, staff writer Morning Sentinel news story AUGUSTA — Just more than two weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the removal of Edwards Dam, Atlantic salmon in the Kennebec River, as well as the Penobscot and Androscoggin rivers, were declared an endangered species by the federal government. While state officials decried the listing Read More
50 Years of Advocating for Maine’s Environment
Natural Resources Council of Maine celebrates its half century of advocacy by Chris Cousins Times Record news story AUGUSTA — In 50 years of existence, the Natural Resources Council of Maine has compiled a long list of achievements — ranging from the removal of dams to the successful push for a bottle bill in Maine. Read More
