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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Earth First! Blockades Giant Industrial Wind Turbines in Pristine Wilderness
On July - 6 - 2010 10 COMMENTS
Group Not Satisfied with Plum Creek’s Promise, Demand Preservation of Unique Forest
On July - 28 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS
for immediate release Contact: Logan Perkins: (207) 615-5158 or Emily Posner (207) 930-5232 While the Native Forest Network (NFN) is encouraged by recent developments regarding Plum Creek’s harvest plans of the Big Wilson late successional forest in Elliotsville, Maine many concerns remain about the future of this particular forest and Plum Creek’s role in the [...]