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As a voting resident and person who loves Maine “the way life should be” it has come to my attention that LD 1671, An Act To Provide Funding to the Department of Transportation for a Feasibility Study of an East-west Highway, is scheduled for a public hearing. As my memory serves, such a road has been under discussion and proposed off and on for approximately 20 years. At this point in time, it seems to be that the Cianbro Corporation wants to move ahead [...]
Continue reading Marie Zwicker’s Testimony in Opposition to LD 1671
H2O comes at a price for both our health and the environment
By: Alexa Coppola
On any given day in the progressive 21st century, a relatively intuitive economist might ask himself, “What may be the next most valuable commodity?”A greedy economist without regard for the environment or for his fellow citizens of the planet would tell you that water may be next in line for items of greatest value.Water — yes, water. The same water that runs through the tap [...]
Continue reading Poland Springs: What it Means to be Exploited
Tribe’s water threatened I found the BDN’s May 9 story “Tribes walk to promote clean water,” concerning the 2011 Mother Earth Water Walk, inspiring and well-written. It underscores just how much most Native Americans value clean water. Why then is there currently a plan at Indian Township to exploit its water resource by selling volumes of it on the open market through a proposed bottling enterprise? I don’t see anything sacred about that. This has all been pretty hush-hush as [...]
Continue reading Tribe's Water Threatened, May 10, 2011
July 7th, 2011 | Category: Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed | Our letter to the editor did appear in the April 5, 2009 Sunday Telegram on the Editorial page under Another View. However, the passages in red were eliminated from our original. Just another example of the Press Herald filtering out controversial issues in support of big money interests.
Marty
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The Portland Press Herald (Tuesday, March 24, 2009) believes that Fryeburg’s loss, in judicial court, to Poland Spring should teach a lesson regarding “guidelines for policies or practices contained in a [...]
Continue reading Letter to the Editor March 24, 2009
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