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Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Meaghan LaSala
Topic: LURC’s Vote to Approve TranCanada’s Kibby Mtn. II Wind Project
Why did the Citizens Taskforce on Windpower oppose the project and stage a protest before the meeting: Why did LURC Commissioner Rebecca Kurtz vote against the project (as the one dissenting vote)? Why did the rest of the commission vote in favor?
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Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producers: Matt Murphy & Meaghan LaSalaSegment 1: Robin Jones, Film Coordinator for The Grand in Ellsworth, talks with Matt Murphy about new and upcoming films, including a “Hollywood Rebel” film series and a number of holiday family films. FMI: robinjonesfilm@gmail.com
Segment 2: Protest of the Rollins Wind Project in Lincoln
Who opposes industrial wind projects in Maine? What are some of the concerns of those who oppose large scale wind projects? What is the current status of the 40 turbine Rollins wind project in Lincoln? -
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Segment 1:
Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection held a public hearing regarding the designation of bisphenol A as a priority chemical and it’s regulation in children’s products on Thursday.
Guests:
Mike Belliveau, Executive Director, Environmental Health Strategy CenterJohn Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, co-author of Our Stolen Future (1996) and the website OurStolenFuture.org (synthesizing hundreds of scientific articles about endocrine disruption to make them accessible to the media and the lay public)Laura Vandenberg, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, Tufts University. Her major research focus is on understanding human exposure to the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A.Jennifer Sass is a senior scientist in Natural Resources Defense Council’s health and environment program, Jennifer received her doctorate degree from the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and a postdoctoral fellowship in toxicology from the University of Maryland. http://www.nrdc.org/Segment 2:WERU is kicking off a new partnership with the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, in which we hope to bring some of their in-depth reporting to the WERU airwaves.Award-winning journalist Naomi Schalit, formerly of MPBN, the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel is Executive Director and Senior Reporter for the Center. She joined us here at the WERU studios to tell us more about the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, and their recent series of reports on the Wind Energy Act of 2008—which fast tracked industrial wind power development in Maine. http://pinetreewatchdog.org/
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Industrial Wind in Maine
Today we look at the controversy around wind power development in Maine.
Wind power has been touted as an alternative energy source, which we need to foster a domestic energy supply and minimize the pollution causing climate change. In the past three years, state government has examined the regulatory process which industrial wind developers must go through to execute projects and have made legislative changes to expedite that process.
Environmental and democracy activists caution that industrial wind is not a panacea. Effects are already being experienced by people located near wind farms, and other projects are poised to develop pristine alpine regions in Maine. Earlier this week, Earth First activists engaged in direct action against the industrial wind development at Kibby Mountain, outside of Stratton, Maine.
Today we here from a number of prospective s, with interviews with Bob Weingarten of Friends of the Boundary Mountains, Jonathan Carter of the Forest Ecology Network, and John Kerry, the director of Maine’s Office of Energy Independence and Security -
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Producers/Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topics: Offshore power, wooden boatbuilding, adventure sailing and more
What are local issues about offshore wind and tidal power? What’s up for local boatbuilder’s first new wooden power yacht in 25 years? Are there different ways to rig the lobster fishery?
Guests: Chummy Rich, Bass Harbor Boat; Steve Rinker, Around in 10 participant
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Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco
Segment 1: A deadline is looming for those hoping to get a public hearing on a large scale industrial wind project in Western Maine. Today we talk with Jonathan Carter of the Forest Ecology Network, a group that vocally opposes the project. (FMI: www.forestecologynetwork.org) Requests for a public hearing on the Highland Wind Power Project (DP 4862) can be emailed by 2/19/10 to Marcia.Spencer-Famous@maine.gov
And we talk with Heather Spaulding of MOFGA, about LD1547, “An Act to Revise Notification Requirements for Pesticides Applications Using Aircraft and Air Carrier Equipment, which would Streamline Maine’s Pesticide Notification System. FMI: www. mofga.org , www.thinkfirstspraylast.org
Link to bill: http://www.legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=1547&snum=124
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Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce and Alan Sprague
Special Guest Host: Capt. Giffy Full
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topics: Fisheries “permit banking”, Fox Islands wind power, Nevada Lobster industry
What is the state of the ground fishery today and historically? How can the fisheries have a sustainable future? Why is wind power good for Maine islands?
Guests: Geoff Smith, Nature Conservancy; Aaron Dority, Penobscot East Resource Center; Glenn Libby, Port Clyde Fisherman’s Coop and National Marine Fisheries Council
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