The state’s biggest lobster trade group says the concessions sought by the state are out of proportion with the risk the industry poses to endangered right whales.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Imagine a day without water, and how we can prevent that
Most of us want Congress to invest in water infrastructure before our systems fail. Let’s make sure lawmakers know it.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Moosehead developers yield to the inevitable
Ten years after Plum Creek Timber won an expensive rezoning battle, the real estate market had the final word.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Gulf of Maine Research Institute launches virtual climate center
It will identify solutions to rising sea temperatures in a part of the ocean warming faster than almost any other.
Posted inLocal & State
Remediation work continues at site of Gardiner bridge project
The Department of Environmental Protection plans to deploy a geoprobe next week to try to locate the source of petroleum products in the soil next to Cobbosseecontee Stream.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Politics
Mills comes out against ‘foolish’ federal regulations to protect right whales
The governor is directing the Department of Marine Resources to come up with an alternative to a federal plan to reduce the Maine lobster industry’s impact on endangered right whales.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Edwards Dam removal signaled new era for rivers
Once considered only for their industrial uses, the waterways are now seen as community assets for other reasons.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Rep. Golden’s effort to withhold whale protection money fails
The 2nd District Democrat had proposed pulling the financial plug on lobster fishing restrictions until a scientific tool used to come up with the plan was peer-reviewed.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Backing lobstermen, Rep. Golden seeks to withhold funds for right whale protections
Rep. Pingree co-sponsors the amendment, as Golden argues that a scientific tool used to assess the lobster industry’s risk to right whales has not been subject to 3rd-party review.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Lobstermen tell regulators: Give us fewer buoy lines, but let us fish them how we want
Flexibility is the only way Maine’s diverse $485 million fishery can survive, they say at a hearing in Deer Isle.