*Action Alert * *Funding of East-West Highway Feasibility Study* *Coming up for vote as early as tomorrow, 2/28*** *Contact your representative today opposing LD 1671*** * * *LD 1671, *An Act To Provide Funding to the Department of Transportation for a Feasibility Study for an East-West Highway, has been voted out of the Transportation Committee [...]
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Getting it right for Wolves, for the Earth By Robert Goldman
Getting it right for Wolves, for the Earth By Robert Goldman Mysterious and magical things started happening in Yellowstone National Park in the mid-nineties. Streamside cottonwood and willow trees and shrubs were suddenly growing again, after seventy years of slumber. New aspen trees in the park’s northern valleys were also sprouting after a similarly long [...]
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Earth First! Blockades Giant Industrial Wind Turbines in Pristine Wilderness
Stratton, Maine- At about 8 a.m., Tuesday July 6, at least fifty Earth First! activists blockaded Goldbrook Rd, the access point to the Kibby Mountain wind project outside the town of Stratton, halting the construction of 22 industrial wind turbines on the delicate Alpine ecosystems of Maine’s western boundary mountains. The action comes just before the Land Use Regulation Commission’s (LURC) meeting July 7 to consider a proposal for a similar project on neighboring Sisk Mountain, and on the heels of the national Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, hosted this year by Maine Earth First!
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Join Us For the 2010 Round River Rendezvous (June 29th – July 6th)
Tues, June 29th – Tues, July 6th Maine Earth First! is excited to host this year’s Round River Rendezvous. Here are some things we want you to know before coming: About The Site: This year’s rendezvous will be on private land with permission from the landowner. It is a beautiful piece of land on the [...]
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2010 Earth First Round River Rendezvous!
North Woods Round River Rendezvous! June 29th – July 6th 2010 (directions HERE) In 2004, after the Down East Round River Rendezvous on Donnell Pond, about a hundred Earth First!ers greeted Governor Baldacci at his house to protest plans to build a liquified natural gas facility. After a long campaign, those plans were defeated, for [...]
Action Alert! Funding of East-West Highway Feasibility Study
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Connections Found between East-West Highway, Canadian Fracking Fields, and Searsport LPG Tank
On February - 28 - 2012 ADD COMMENTS
by Chris Buchanan, Defending Water for Life in Maine, February 25, 2012 Defending Water for Life has been an active part of the campaign to oppose the proposed East-West highway. A few days ago, one of our allies found what appears to be the link between the east-west highway, the Canadian fracking fields surrounding Maine, [...]
East-West Highway Moves Forward
On December - 8 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS
*LR 2358, *An Act To Provide Funding to the Department of Transportation for a Feasibility Study for an East-West Highway, has been given the green light for consideration this session.** *Background* The idea of a Maine East-West highway has been kicked around the Maine Legislature since 1981. However, public and/or private funding has never been [...]
Occupy Augusta, Maine!
On October - 20 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS
An ongoing occupation of Capital Park in Augusta has been going since October 15th. Forty people have been camped out at the capital since the 120 + person rally on Saturday the 15th. Folks are gathering to demand change and are willing to stay as long as it takes! Occupy Augusta is unified in thinking [...]
Getting it right for Wolves, for the Earth By Robert Goldman
On January - 2 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS
Getting it right for Wolves, for the Earth By Robert Goldman Mysterious and magical things started happening in Yellowstone National Park in the mid-nineties. Streamside cottonwood and willow trees and shrubs were suddenly growing again, after seventy years of slumber. New aspen trees in the park’s northern valleys were also sprouting after a similarly long [...]
Explanation of Arrest in Protest to Rollins Mountain Wind Development
On December - 18 - 2010 1 COMMENT
Why I Chose to be Arrested at Rollins Mountain My name is Don Smith. I am a native Mainer and I am 82 years old. I am a veteran and a grandfather. I was arrested and charged with criminal trespass at the Rollins Mt. wind project site in Lincoln on November 8. Five were arrested [...]
A conversation with Logan Perkins of Maine Earth First!
On July - 24 - 2010 1 COMMENT
A conversation with Logan Perkins of Maine Earth First! The Irregular recently composed a number of questions for Maine Earth First! based largely on questions and concerns voiced by a number of locals either in person or via our Facebook page. The answers were provided by Logan Perkins who has been active with Maine Earth [...]