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Save Moosehead - Plum Creek hearings begin tomorrow!

Tomorrow the first of the public hearings about Plum Creek's massive development proposal for the Moosehead Lake region begin in Greenville.  We are encouraging people to attend one of the four hearings (find a list of dates and locations of the hearings at www.nrcm.org/pc_action.asp) and speak out against this plan. 

As our executive director Brownie Carson said in June, 2007:  “Maine has one chance to get it right for Moosehead. This is our heritage, a special place we have inherited from those who came before us. Seattle-based Plum Creek will come and go, but the people of Maine will live with the decisions made in this rezoning process forever.  We will not sit idly by and allow the company to destroy what people love about Maine’s beautiful Moosehead region.”

Environmental News the Week of November 26

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Environmental News the Week of November 19

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Environmental News the Week of November 12

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Dates for Plum Creek Hearings Confirmed - Mark Your Calendars!

LURC confirmed at their meeting yesterday that the Plum Creek public hearings will be held as follows:

• Saturday, December 1 in Greenville at Greenville High School
• Sunday, December 2 in Augusta at the Augusta Civic Center
• Saturday, December 15 in Portland at the Holiday Inn by the Bay
• Sunday, December 16 in Greenville at Greenville High School

All hearings will be held from 10 AM to 1 PM and 2-6 PM on each date listed above.  Speakers will most likely have no more than 3 minutes each to speak, and you can begin signing up to speak between 9 and 10 AM the day of the hearing.  Speakers will speak in the order they sign up so please plan to get there early.

You may only speak at one hearing though you can certainly attend more than one hearing if you want to.  Please go to the page below and sign a pledge to attend a hearing so that we know that you will be there.

Find out how you can help by visiting www.nrcm.org/pc_action.asp. 

PLEASE mark your calendars and plan to attend one of the hearings so that you can speak out to protect Moosehead Lake!

If you have further questions, please contact Caitlin Cleaver at ccleaver@nrcm.org or 207-622-3101 x270. Thank you!

Environmental news the week of November 5

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Global Warming Events Set for Saturday, November 3

Global Warming Rally Set Saturday
Thursday November 1st, 2007, By Ann Bryant, Staff Writer
Lewiston Sun Journal news story

FARMINGTON - A national call to rally for climate change was answered in Farmington by a Mt. Blue High School sophomore.

A "Step It Up 2007: Green Leadership" event will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Education Center on the University of Maine at Farmington campus. Another rally, one of 1,100 nationally, was organized here in April to push Congress to act on global warming and reduce carbon emissions.

Amanda Hall, 15, will host Saturday's rally to raise awareness of global warming. It's one of many events being held across the country to demand leadership on global warming, she said.

Step It Up is a movement started by a group of Middlebury College students and environmental economist and author Bill McKibben.