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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2017
EXPLORE: Planning a trip? Don't miss our Downeast lighthouses online guide
Planning a trip?
Here's most of the lighthouses from Massachusetts to Newfoundland courtesy of Google My Maps and the many contributors to this effort. Enlarge the map and click on each for more details about individual lighthouses.Need this information on the road?
Download Google's "My Map" app on your phone or tablet and search for "Downeast Lighthouses". Presto, you can access all of this information. Click through to the weblink where you will find detailed information about most lighthouses.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Monday, June 2, 2014
FORESTRY: Tory Forest Strategy Sells Rural New Brunswick and the Environment Down the River
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| Clearcut (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The decision of the Alward government to permit 21% more clearcutting on Crown land this year will be ruinous for both rural communities and wildlife, according to Green Party Leader David Coon. "This corporate forest plan sells rural New Brunswick and our environment down the river. It runs roughshod over the values and aspirations that Ne Brunswickers hold dear," said Coon.
The Green Party wants to create the conditions for an innovative and diverse forest industry that suits our forest and sustains our rural communities, but Coon says the Alward plan will make that impossible.
"This is the greatest give-away of forest resources to corporations in living memory," said Green Party leader David Coon. "Rural communities will be unable to rebuild their local forest economies because the Premier will give away their local natural resource base to corporate mills in other regions. Local independent mills will become a thing of the past and the market for independent woodlot owners will be devastated. As for wildlife, entire populations will be eradicated without adequate habitat in which to live," said Coon.
"The current system has become corrupted," said David Coon. "We want to take operational control of the Crown lands back from the corporations nd manage them for the public good, with decision-making authority given to local communities," said Coon.
Over the past decade, experts employed by the Department of Natural Resources determined that the 3.26 million cubic metres of spruce and fir clearcut from Crown land was unsustainable and harvest levels needed to be lowered to reflect the available wood supply. The only way harvest levels can be raised, is to allow clearcutting in the 26% of the Crown lands where only selection harvesting had been permitted in order to sustain wildlife habitat and provide streamside buffers.
"The long-term timber objectives of the Alward forest plan will dramatically increase herbicide spraying and convert much of the remaining natural forest on Crown lands to plantations," according to the Green Party leader.
"Once again, we see the Alward government siding with money and power rather than with New Brunswickers," said Coon.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
LNG - NS Wants US Gas for LNG Export, Reversing M&NE Pipeline
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| Boston, Mass. (Sept. 8, 2006) - A Coast Guard 25-foot response boat is flanked by two tugs as the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) tanker Berge Boston is moored to the pier at an LNG facility in Boston. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Luke Pinneo (RELEASED) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Save Passamaquoddy Bay
PO Box 222
Eastport, ME 04631
The Latest Update to the Save Passamaquoddy Bay website:
Nova Scotia
- East Coast LNG project gains momentum, strikes supply deal with Germany's E.ON
- Pieridae inks $35-billion deal for gas from Goldboro LNG
- Pieridae Energy signs LNG deal for proposed project in Goldboro, N.S.
- Contact Exploration's Goldboro LNG partner signs 20 year sales agreement with customer
- E.ON signs up for Goldboro LNG volumes
- E.ON confirms Canada LNG deal, denies plans to cancel Gazprom contracts
Robert Godfrey
Friday, May 31, 2013
LNG - St. Andrews-by-the-sea continues to oppose LNG development in Passamaquoddy Bay.
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| English: The Algonquin hotel, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary
Federal Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE Room 1A
Washington, DC 20426
Dear Ms. Bose:
Re: Downcast LNG CP07-52-000. CP07-53-000. CP07-53-001
The Council of the Town of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick would like to submit this letter to reiterate our concerns and opposition to the establishment of a Liquefied Natural Gas plant as proposed by Down East LNG at Robbinston, Maine.
Figure 25 of the Marine Transit Route M50, international breech scenario, clearly
indicates that much of the Town of Saint Andrews would be affected, should a natural
gas spill or fire occur. None of our emergency planning has included such a scenario.
The medical, fire and policing services required to properly address the explosion risk is
beyond Town financial capacities.
Since our last submissions to your agency in 2009, significant financial resources have
been made to our tourism and infrastructure. To accommodate our developing cruise
ship initiatives, $900,000 (CAD) was invested in the Town Market Wharf. We had two
large cruise ships and several smaller ships use the wharf in 2012 and expect that this
initiative will be successful in the continuing years. The exclusion zones and transit
schedules proposed by the LNG traffic would affect our cruise ship plans. The Town
wharf also supports a multimillion dollar aquaculture industry. Again exclusion zones
and transit schedules would impact that industry. Our signature hotel, the Algonquin is
nearing a $30,000,000 renovation in a joint venture by Marriott Hotels, New Castle
Properties and the Province of New Brunswick. The hotel is the cornerstone of Saint
Andrews tourism and is establishing a worldwide marketing program through the
Marriott Hotel Autograph designation. The development of the Downcast LNG is seen
as a significant roadblock to the viability of the Algonquin Hotel initiative and the
negative economic impacts of the LNG terminal to the hotel is seen as dramatic.
It is impossible to market a vacation in an identified risk zone. The Huntsman Marine
Science Centre has just completed a $4,000,000 construction of a world class marine
aquarium. It sits exactly opposite the proposed site for the Downcast Project and in the
high risk international breach scenario. The iinpacts to its viability are as significant as
those of the Algonquin Hotel.
[With] all of the current usage of the bay, it is impossible to add the proposed tanker
traffic and carry on with the vital economic activity of this area. No scheduling can solve
this problem; many users have to use the waterway when the conditions are appropriate
for their needs.
The government of New Brunswick and the State of Maine have worked together on the
"Two Nation Vacation" marketing initiatives in the last several years. This collaboration
works to stimulate tourism on both sides of the border. The Downcast LNG facility is
seen as a threat to this tourism strategy.
We wish to bring these new investments to our tourism and infrastructure facilities to
your attention. The Council of the Town of Saint Andrews continues to strongly oppose
the development of an LNG terminal in Robbinston, Maine. The Downeast LNG project
would put the viability of our tourism and commercial economy at risk.
Stan Choptiany
Mayor, Town of Saint Andrews
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