http://www.nrcm.org/rss.asp?f=2 NRCM Healthy Waters bdimond@nrcm.orgTue, 09 Feb 2010 09:55:45 EDTFuzzyRSS 1.0.1 http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3341Ray "Bucky" Owen, former director of the Department Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and a retired wildlife biology professor, was presented with a conservation award today in New York.The Atlantic Salmon Federation presented its highest award, the Lee Wulff Conservation Award, to Owen for his lifetime commitment to the environment and his efforts to protect wild Atlantic salmon and...bdimond@nrcm.orgTue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3334AUGUSTA, Maine — PPL Corp. announced Monday that it has completed an $81 million deal to sell six Maine dams to another firm.Under the terms of the deal first announced in July, PPL will sell its stake in the dams the company now operates at Milford, Orono, Stillwater, Ellsworth, Medway and West Enfield.The company purchasing the dams, Black Bear Hydro Partners LLC, is a subsidiary of Boston...bdimond@nrcm.orgTue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3331Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) has awarded Scott Hall and Richard Fennelly of PPL Maine a 2009 Environmental Award for their leadership and collaboration in making the historic restoration of the Penobscot River a reality.  The award is given each year by NRCM to an individual or group who whose actions have made a real difference in the protection...bdimond@nrcm.orgTue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3328BATH — It took Nick Bennett of the Natural Resources Council of Maine to provide a reality check Thursday night during a presentation on renewable water power as part of the “Wood, Water and Wind” series organized by the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust.Bennett’s remark that a proposed pumped storage facility for Wiscasset might wreak havoc on micro-organisms living in the river...bdimond@nrcm.orgFri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3245The Penobscot River Restoration Project is a public-private partnership to restore self-sustaining runs of endangered Atlantic salmon and sturgeon, American shad, river herring, and seven other species of fish."This is a fairly large brown bullhead, which also goes by the regional name of hornpout, and it's a popular fish for people to catch at night on a baited hook and worm, and it's a ...bdimond@nrcm.orgWed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3237The plants didn't always cooperate. Ditto the water, the weather and a motor that operated the suction hose dangling from their pontoon boat. But by the end of summer, success. Dan Bishop and his three-person crew from the Lakes Environmental Association spent half of June, July and August in wet suits pulling up milfoil at the bottom of the Songo River and Brandy Pond in Western Maine. They bagge...bdimond@nrcm.orgMon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3241Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact with the water. Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater — polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals — caused painful rashes. Many of his brother’s teeth were capped to replace enamel that was eate...bdimond@nrcm.orgMon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3220Sometime in the next couple of weeks, a small dam on a tributary of the Androscoggin River on the Topsham-Lisbon Falls line will be torn down and 43 miles of the scenic Little River set free. It's not a major dam, but it's the first time any dam in the Androscoggin watershed has been removed for ecological reasons. And environmentalists see it as a significant step toward restoring sea-run fish, s...bdimond@nrcm.orgThu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3209Federal regulators are recommending only minor changes to a proposal to remove two Penobscot River dams and bypass a third as part of a historic plan to restore fish habitat throughout the watershed.In a draft environmental assessment released this month, staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission determined that the river restoration project would benefit native plants and animals as well ...bdimond@nrcm.orgSat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3200Now that Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot, Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers are protected as an endangered species, it is time to move forward and actually protect them. Here are some things to ponder as we do so:1. The U.S. Endangered Species Act forbids us from giving up. The ESA can be boiled down to the advice we give our kids: “No excuses allowed.” As early as the 1830s, influenti...bdimond@nrcm.orgTue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT