Impacts May Be Greater than Report Suggests Statement of Dylan Voorhees, NRCM Clean Energy Project Director “The IPCC report makes it plain that there is no debate anymore. The international scientific community is clear about what we need to do to avoid the worst consequences of global warming: stabilize worldwide emissions of the pollutants that Read More
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Redington Fight Emblematic of Maine’s Challenge
By Theo Stein Portland Press Herald op-ed There’s been Sturm und Drang aplenty over the Land Use Regulation Commission’s decision not to approve a 90-megawatt wind- power project proposed for a roadless mountain tract near Sugarloaf Mountain. That’s to be expected and, one could argue, even healthy. After all, these are grand issues at stake. Read More
Panel Rejects Wind Power in Redington
by Alan Crowell, staff writer Kennebec Journal news story FARMINGTON — In a decision that could have wide ramifications for the future of wind power in Maine, the Land Use Regulation Commission on Wednesday rejected a plan to place 30 turbines on two western mountains. The application by Maine Mountain Power to rezone about 1,000 Read More
LURC Rejects Redington Wind Farm
by Donna M. Perry, Staff Writer Lewiston Sun Journal news story FARMINGTON–The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission voted, 6-1 against rezoning 1,004 mountaintop acres in northern Franklin County for a 30-turbine wind-energy project today. Only commissioner Stephen Wight, of Newry, supported the rezoning request. The commission’s staff had previously recommended the rezoning be approved. The Read More
Global Warming Plan a Priority
by John Richardson, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story AUGUSTA – A plan to limit global warming pollution from power plants—the first such effort in the United States—is about to reach Maine’s Legislature. The Baldacci administration has been negotiating for about three years with eight other Northeastern states to create the plan, known as Read More
Maine, Other States Join Forces to Muscle EPA on Air Pollution
By John Richardson, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story As a small, rural state tucked in the far corner of the country, Maine doesn’t seem like much of a match for the federal government. But the state has taken the Bush administration to court six times in the past four years to demand tougher Read More
PUC Chief Urges Cut in Use of Electricity
By Colin Hickey, Staff Writer Morning Sentinel news story WATERVILLE — Maine Public Utilities Commission Chairman Kurt Adams had a grandfather who was fanatical about not using a single kilowatt hour more of electric power than he needed. In his grandfather’s household, Adams told those attending a business breakfast on Thursday at Thomas College, grandchildren Read More
Snowe, Collins Co-sponsor Climate Stewardship Act
Maine’s senators lead on action to reduce global warming by Dylan Voorhees, NRCM Clean Energy Project Director “The Natural Resources Council of Maine applaud Senators Snowe and Collins for co-sponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act of 2007. “The Climate Stewardship Act would reduce US global warming emissions to 2000 levels by 2010, and would further reduce Read More
Climate Change Bearometer
Bangor Daily News editorial The Bush administration has for years ducked the issue of climate change and how human activities are contributing to the planet’s warming. So, it is no surprise that when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed, after a court-ordered review, to list polar bears as a threatened species, the agency Read More
