Sebasticook to the Sea: Alewives' Perilous Lives Crucial to Ecosystem, Economy
BENTON — Alewives are little fish with a big story.Each year, billions of the silver fish hatch out of eggs in the cool waters of the Sebasticook River and embark on a dangerous journey to the sea and...
View Article"They're Just Not Doing Enforcement"
Enforcement actions against commercial-scale developers, landowners, and builders have declined dramatically under Gov. Paul LePage.Statistics acquired from the Department of Environmental Protection...
View ArticleSources Describe a Department Under Duress
AUGUSTA - Every change of administration brings a change in priorities, and in early 2011 staffers within the Department of Environmental Protection fully expected Gov. Paul LePage to direct them to...
View ArticleThe Lobbyist in the Henhouse: Whose Interests is Maine’s DEP Commissioner...
EUSTIS — On a Wednesday in April, Flagstaff Lake was draining away.When full, it is the state's fifth largest freshwater body, nurturing a local tourist economy and providing boating and swimming...
View ArticleSouth Portland Tar Sands Ordinance Heads for Ballot
A South Portland group says it's gathered enough signatures to prompt a vote on a local ordinance aimed at preventing the flow of tar sands oil through Maine.Concerned Citizens of South Portland needed...
View ArticleS. Portland Tar Sands Opponents Submit Signatures for Referendum
SOUTH PORTLAND — A citizens group opposed to the prospect of so-called tar-sands oil being pumped through South Portland has collected 3,779 signatures to place an ordinance on the ballot that would...
View ArticleDate Set for Historic Veazie Dam Breaching
VEAZIE, Maine — Mainers will have an opportunity to see some history in the making in July, when the effort to remove the Veazie Dam — one of the few remaining impediments to the return of native...
View ArticleLower Kennebec River a Secret Jewel for Paddlers
The paddling trip from Waterville to Augusta, or even farther south to Gardiner, is an underrated trip compared to more popular waterways, according to an outdoor recreation planner for the...
View ArticleReconnecting the Penobscot River with the Sea: Breaching Veazie Dam on...
Today, a local contractor (Sargent Corporation, Old Town) will begin to remove the Veazie Dam, re-opening the Penobscot River from Old Town, Maine to the sea for the first time in nearly 200 years. The...
View ArticlePenobscot Tribal Leaders Past and Present Discuss Dam Removal
EDDINGTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- For the Penobscot Indian Nation, the breaching of the Veazie Dam is an important day, and an opportunity to embrace a part of their culture that went away when the...
View ArticleCeremony Marks Beginning of Demolition for Veazie Dam
EDDINGTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Members of environmental groups savored the moment Monday morning as work began to tear down the Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River. The dam removal is just the most...
View ArticleBreaching of Dam, Restoring Salmon’s Passage Unite Many
EDDINGTON, Maine — Two yellow bulldozers clamped down on the face of the hulking Veazie Dam on Monday, cracking open the concrete buttress that has separated Maine’s Penobscot River from the Atlantic...
View ArticleVeazie Dam Demolition Begins on Penobscot River
VEAZIE (AP) — Removal of the Veazie Dam on Maine's Penobscot River began Monday, a move that environmentalists are calling a monumental step toward resurrecting the river's once-abundant marine...
View ArticleVeazie Dam Starts to Comes Down
EDDINGTON - History was made Monday morning as the destruction of a historic landmark began on the Penobscot River. "Today is the beginning of the Penobscot River flowing freely at Veazie for...
View ArticleA River In the Balance
On Monday, crews began demolishing the Penobscot River’s Veazie Dam. It marked an important moment for sea-run fish, efforts to restore a complex habitat and unlikely partnerships. The day was notable...
View ArticleRemoval of Veazie Dam to Free Historic Paddling Route on Penobscot
Water burst through the Veazie Dam on July 22, a day that marked the beginning of its destruction. By the end of the year, the river will flow free. And after the ice melts next spring, canoeists and...
View ArticleHopes for a Fish Revival as a Dam Is Demolished
EDDINGTON, Me. — There is a bend in the Penobscot River here, embanked by an Indian burial ground, through which millions of fish used to make a strenuous journey upstream to spawn before returning to...
View ArticleDam Removal Tells New Chapter in Maine History
The history of Maine is told by its rivers. For native people they were the source of food and transportation. For European shipbuilders, they were the highways into a trackless forest.For a century...
View ArticleYarmouth Still Seeking Consensus on Removal of Two Dams
CUMBERLAND - On July 26, the Sebago Chapter of Trout Unlimited teamed with the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership to remove Randall Mill Dam from Chandler Brook in Pownal, reconnecting the upper brook to...
View ArticleMaine Gets $1M to Support Penoboscot River Restoration
AUGUSTA — A project designed to bring back once-abundant fish populations to Maine's Penobscot River is receiving support from a federal grant.U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King recently announced...
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