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Shipping growth must weigh impact on PenBay towns
Two recent reports in the October issue of The Working Waterfront, “Searsport’s Mack Point is pivot in Maine’s port strategy” and the editorial, “Searsport’s Mack Point is critical to Maine’s future,” suggest that any and all port development at Mack Point is good. However, inappropriate development poses a significant threat to our marine-based economy. We
Why Penobscot Bay is worried about LPG
The discovery portion of the Searsport Planning Board’s review of a proposed LPG facility, including 11 nights of hearings that began in November, thousands of pages of evidence, with stress and fault lines between parties clearly evident, ended ignominiously Feb. 25. Although the schedule allows submission of written material and briefs by interested parties during
LPG Concerns
To the Editor: The Working Waterfront report on the Army Corps of Engineers assessment of the LPG facility proposed for Mack Point, in the July 2012 edition, summarizes often unsupported and inaccurate material from the assessment, authored by Jay Clement, without balancing source material, ultimately concluding “minimal disruption” from the LPG facility. It was unfortunate and