Doctors, seniors, parents, coaches, voice concerns Protect South Portland news release Local physicians, coaches, seniors, and the American Lung Association gathered today at the Betsy Ross House, a senior-citizen residency in South Portland just a half mile from the proposed tar sands smokestacks, to express their serious concern about the health impacts of a tar Read More
Tar Sands Oil
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest and most climate-destructive form of oil in the world. When it spills, it is almost impossible to clean up. For a few years, there was a proposal to bring tar sands oil through an existing 63-year-old pipeline in Maine. The pipeline It crosses some of Maine’s most pristine watersheds and ends at Casco Bay. This plan would have put our lakes, rivers, and coastal waters at risk, and threaten communities and drinking water from Sebago Lake along its path.
NRCM 2013 Environmental Award Winner: Tar Sands Activists from Casco, Harrison, Otisfield, South Portland, and Waterford
Tar Sands Activists 2013 Environmental Award for their hard work defending against the risks to air, land, and water by leading efforts in their communities to pass a municipal resolution in opposition to sending tar sands through Maine’s crude oil pipeline As part of our ongoing work to combat climate change, NRCM has been working Read More
A Small Group in Maine Takes on a Big Tar Sands Pipeline Plan
By Roger Drouin Grist news story A citizens group in South Portland, Maine, is hoping to beat back an effort by Big Oil to pipe tar-sands crude through their city. The group gathered enough signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot that would stymie oil companies’ plans, and now the activists are going Read More
Oil Industry Anxious for Dirty Tar Sands
by Norton Lamb and Dylan Voorhees, Natural Resources Council of Maine American Journal op-ed There is a vast volume of tar sands oil being mined in the center of Canada, and Big Oil is anxious to get it to a coast so it can ship this dirty fuel to lucrative global markets. These oil companies Read More
On 3rd Anniversary of Massive Tar Sands Spill: Mainers Rally
Urge Senator Collins to Join King, Michaud, Pingree, and Call for Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands Pipeline NRCM news release Today, on the third anniversary of the nation’s largest and most expensive oil pipeline spill, Mainers rallied at the Portland Water District headquarters, carrying signs and dressed in black to symbolize an oil spill. Read More
Call to Sen. Collins from Citizens to Join Congressional Delegation Against Tar Sands Pipeline in Maine
By Ramona Du Houx Maine Insights news story On the third anniversary of the nation’s largest and most expensive oil pipeline spill, Mainers rallied at the Portland Water District headquarters, carrying signs and dressed in black to symbolize an oil spill. They gathered to denounce oil industry efforts to pump thick, heavy tar sands oil Read More
Maine Oil Dealers Vow to Fight Tar Sands Measure, as Supporters Rally
by Tom Porter MPBN news story Environmental activists are rallying in Portland this evening to denounce what they describe as “oil industry efforts to pump tar sands oil through the Sebago Lake watershed to Portland harbor for export.” It’s the second time in less than a week that protestors have gathered to oppose the prospect Read More
Otisfield Passes Resolution Opposing Sending Tar Sands Oil Through Town and Region
NRCM news release Otisfield, ME — Otisfield residents voted overwhelmingly at town meeting Saturday to pass a municipal resolution stating opposition to sending tar sands oil through ExxonMobil’s Portland-Montreal Pipeline, making it the seventh Maine town to publically and officially oppose the proposal. The 63-year-old pipeline, which stretches 236 miles from Montreal to South Portland, Read More
South Portland Voters Likely to See Ordinance to Block Tar Sands on November Ballot
By Seth Koenig, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine —A group hoping to block transportation of so-called tar sands oil through South Portland — one end of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline — have gathered four times the number of signatures needed to put a prohibitive new ordinance on the November ballot. If Read More
