To the editor: Congratulations on excellent newspaper, annual magazine & dedicated work. It’s great to learn that Farnham Butler (WWF March 06) is still active at 96! Martin Haase Nova Scotia
Canada expresses concern about Maine LNG projects
Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Wilson, has expressed his government’s concern over proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities on the Maine side of Passamaquoddy Bay. To reach the proposed development ships would have to pass through Canadian waters. In an April 7 letter to Joseph Kelliher, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
LNG
Word that the Canadian government is concerned about the passage of LNG tankers through Canadian waters on the way to Eastport or Passamaquoddy Bay shouldn’t be particularly surprising: Canada said the same things 20 years ago when the project being proposed was an oil refinery at Shackford Head near Eastport. What’s always changing as the
Chebeague Island wins independence
Chebeague Island did it. On April 5 the Maine Legislature approved L.D. 1735, the bill allowing the island community to secede from Cumberland and become its own town. The vote was 136 to 1 in favor in the House of Representatives and 31 to 3 in the Senate. Gov. John Baldacci signed the secession bill
Chebeague Goes It Alone
Once again, a little Maine island community has shown its stuff to the world, convincing the Maine Legislature to allow it to secede from a mainland town. Chebeague accomplished its secession from Cumberland through careful planning, sober rhetoric and lots of hard work. History may have been on the island’s side — the character of
New book highlights Vinalhaven’s farming heritage
Adapted from Island Saltwater Farms/Farming on Vinalhaven 1820-1960, which is being published by the Vinalhaven Historical Society with support from MBNA. Farming, as it had been practiced for nearly two centuries–or until 1960–will never return to Vinalhaven. Too much has changed. In the 1930s, most of the island’s farms were sold to seasonal owners. While
The CAT comes to Portland: CAT spokesman: Portland operations will be safe and reliable
Donald Cormier came to Portland again last week to work with city officials and assure others that The Cat ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, will be efficient, environmentally responsible and above all, safe. The Cat, a high-speed catamaran, expects to start the run on Friday, May 26. Cormier, Vice President of Operations
Ships, Old and New
Over the past two months Working Waterfront has reported on the launchings of two replica ships, DISCOVERY in Boothbay and GODSPEED in Rockport. Both reflect a growing and commendable willingness to invest in “living” history; both were built in Maine yards because that’s where the skills are. Meanwhile, Portland is about to welcome The Cat
From the Deck: DISCOVERY
I stepped into a shop at The Boothbay Harbor Shipyard and came short up against what I took at first for a very large vessel in frame. She was heavily built of double-sawed 6″x6″ frames set close together. The two halves of each frame were held together with locust treenails, wooden pegs, a tip-off that
Getting Out Alive: In the water, the key to surviving is practice
“Survival is not all physical,” says John McMillan, who conducts his U.S. Coast Guard-approved one-day survival-training course all over America’s coasts and waterways. In fact, physical strength has less to do with survival than knowing what to do and how to do it. In other words, like the old joke, “How do you get to