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February 25th, 2015 | Category: Community Rights, Features, Legal | Defending Water for Life in Maine
Testimony in opposition to LD 146: Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 200: Metallic Mineral Exploration, Advanced Exploration and Mining, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
Dear Senator Saviello, Representative Welsh, and fellow members of the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources,
My name is Chris Buchanan and I’m a resident of Belgrade. Today I’m representing Defending Water for Life in Maine. We work to protect fresh water [...]
Continue reading Defending Water for Life testimony on mining rules, LD 146
February 24th, 2015 | Tags: Chief Kirk Francis, Penobscot, WERU | Category: Audio, Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Legal, Multimedia, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters |
February 17th, 2015 | Tags: Janet Mills, Nickie Sekera, Penobscot Nation, Penobscot River | Category: Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Legal, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, News, Penobscot Nation, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Statewide, United States | The Penobscots are an ancient river-based people. Taking away their waterway is cultural theft.
FRYEBURG — In 2012, then-Attorney General William Schneider, on behalf of the state of Maine, initiated a dubious claim against the Penobscot Nation, challenging their rights to the river water on their reservation. The Penobscot were left no choice but to defend their territory through legal channels.
Schneider’s successor, Janet Mills, is continuing the litigation process with the backing of powerful corporate [...]
Continue reading Maine Voices: State should drop lawsuit that would grab river from Penobscot Nation
February 5th, 2015 | Tags: DEP, Department of Environmental Protection, environmental protection agency, EPA, mpbn, Patty Aho, Penobscot, Penobscot Nation, Penobscot River, water quality standards | Category: Audio, Community Rights, East-West Corridor, Features, First Nations, Grassroots Movements, International, Legal, Legal Tools, Maine, Multimedia, News, Other, Penobscot Nation, Resources, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Towns, other, United States |
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By SUSAN SHARON • FEB 5, 2015 | Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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AUGUSTA, Maine – In a decision that is being welcomed as “historic” by Maine Indian tribes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked the state of Maine to revise some water quality standards for tribal waters.
The decision comes during ongoing litigation brought by the state against the EPA. Maine’s chief [...]
Continue reading EPA Decision: Maine Water Quality Standards Inadequate for Tribal Waters
January 16th, 2015 | Tags: food and water watch, obama, water infrastructure, wenonah hauter | Category: Community Rights, Features, Legal, News, Other States, Rights of Nature, United States | Link to original article.
January 16, 2015
Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter
Washington, D.C. — “Today the Obama administration announced a slew of proposals that will endanger our water systems by promoting and facilitating the management of critical drinking water resources by companies that often have a poor track record. Through the creation of a new Water Finance Center at the [...]
Continue reading Obama’s New Infrastructure Plan Would Worsen Our Water System Woes
January 8th, 2015 | Tags: Alliance for the Common Good, Rally for Unity, Rally of Unity | Category: Community Rights, Defending Water in the Media, East-West Corridor, Events, Features, Grassroots Movements, Maine, Multimedia, News, Photo, Resources, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Resources: Research, Reports, Alternatives, Towns, other, United States, Video | A tremendous showing for community and tribal sovereignty, and water protection
Augusta – Over a hundred Maine citizens and representatives from dozens of organizations joined forces at the State House’s Hall of Flags for the third annual Rally of Unity. The overarching theme for this year’s rally was protection of our water resources and respect for community and tribal sovereignty. Featured speakers included Shenna Bellows, former candidate for U.S. Senate and former Maine Senator Troy Jackson.
Other speakers shared the [...]
Continue reading Alliance for Common Good hosts 3rd Annual Rally of Unity
December 30th, 2014 | Tags: Chris Buchanan, cianbro, Darryl Brown, David Cole, Defending Water for Life, Friends of the Piscatquis Valley, Jym St. Pierre, peter vigue, STEWC, Stop the East-West Corridor, Ted Talbot | Category: Community Rights, Defending Water in the Media, East-West Corridor, Features, Grassroots Movements, Maine, News, Resources: Articles, Blog Spots, Letters, Statewide, United States |
Hi everyone, The current STEWC steering committee is looking for new members. We are asking everyone who is interested in helping to lead STEWC to join us next Friday, December 5th at 10am to explore next steps for our coalition. Find directions at the end of this email, and be in touch if you are interested, but unavailable that day. (I’m sorry, we weren’t able to find a time after normal work hours before the holidays.) Current steering committee members [...]
Continue reading Steering Committee looking for new members
September 27th, 2014 | Tags: campaign nonviolence, end violence, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine | Category: Climate Change, Community Rights, Defending Water in the Media, Events, Features, Grassroots Movements, Maine, Multimedia, News, Photo, Resources, Towns, other, United States, Video | One week after hundreds of thousands took part in the People’s Climate Change demonstration in New York City, Mainers came together for a rally and march to connect the dots between climate destruction, poverty and war.
Defending Water for Life in Maine was one of 38 Maine cosponsors for the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine’s “End Violence Together” event that was held on Saturday, September 27 on the Bangor waterfront as part of the national Campaign Nonviolence.
Continue reading End Violence Together event draws crowd in Bangor
August 31st, 2014 | Tags: bottled water by rail, Conway, Golden Eagle Railway Corp., Golden Eagle Railway Corporation, passenger rail | Category: Action Alerts, Features, Fryeburg, Maine, Nestlé, New Hampshire, News, Portland, Towns, other, United States, Vermont | from Nickie Seckera of Community Water Justice
August 31, 2014
Hello everyone, Update from Western Maine -
It pleases me to hear that gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud has vocalized a lack of support for an East-West Corridor. YES. Michaud has however expressed interest in exploring / supporting rail options for the transport of natural resources. Here is Western Maine, things are becoming more serious now in discussions of resurrecting the Mountain Division rail line from Montreal to Portland through [...]
Continue reading Rail / Water ties with Nestle: update from Western ME
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