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May 8th, 2012 | Tags: east-west highway, peter vigue | Category: Defending Water in the Media, Features, Grassroots Movements, Maine, Multimedia, News, Resources, Statewide, Towns, other, United States, Video | By Nick McCrea, BDN Staff Posted April 24, 2012, at 5:27 p.m.
Go to link for video:
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/24/news/bangor/protesters-oppose-east-west-highway-at-conference-about-maine-canada-commerce/
ORONO, Maine — While business and government officials from Maine and Canada gathered Tuesday morning at the University of Maine to discuss how to spur economic growth in the Atlantic region, a small cadre of central Maine residents outside the conference decried one of the proposals aimed at reaching that goal — an east-west highway through Maine’s interior.
Tuesday [...]
Continue reading Protesters oppose east-west highway at conference about Maine-Canada commerce
By Sharon Kiley Mack, Special to the BDN Posted Nov. 24, 2011
INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine — The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township has nearly completed lining up investors for a $25 million water bottling plant, a project that tribal Gov. Joseph Socabasin said will provide 96 full-time, good-paying jobs with benefits.
Socabasin discussed the project this week in the wake of the tribe’s loss at the polls in early November, which blocked plans for a tribe-owned [...]
Continue reading Passamaquoddy Tribe to create $25M water bottling facility, 96 full-time jobs
Let’s keep an eye on this guy.
Rodney Butler, the previous code enforcement office, left to briefly work for Nestle and is now returning to Brewer as the water superintendent. Let’s all watch to ensure no sleezy deals go down between the water commodification giant and this nice little city while Butler is in charge. Here’s the article from the Bangor Daily News:
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff Posted Oct. 21, 2011
BREWER, Maine — Rodney Butler, [...]
Continue reading Brewer hires former code enforcement officer as water superintendent
September 11th, 2010 | Category: Events, Features, Maine, Towns, other | WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WATER SUPPLIES ON OUR PLANET? WHO IS TAKING WATER SUPPLIES FOR PROFIT? ARE PLASTIC BOTTLES SAFE? “Tapped” is a new film about public Water Supplies and resources that are now being tapped and used for private profit. ”Tapped” looks at how a few corporations– specially Coca Cola, Nestle, Pepsi Cola–are benefiting from an unregulated industry– bottled water. These companies are depleting huge aquifers or taking large quantities of water from public water supplies. It discusses how millions of potentially dangerous empty water bottles are [...]
Continue reading "Tapped" showing in Belfast, September 15th
At a recent meeting in Ellsworth’s City Hall sponsored by the Lamoine Conservation Commission, a 2009 film called “Tapped,” about huge problems with bottled water, was shown. Concerned with the stubbornness of corporations in our daily lives, I was worried that a big company could drain “my aquifer” and leave me wicked thirsty. I learned enough to make me wicked worried!
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By Joyce White
We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, We do to ourselves. – Attributed to Chief Seattle of the Dwamish tribe
We in Maine have such an abundance of water that we tend to take it for granted, seldom questioning that it will always be here for us; but by 2005, an ongoing struggle had [...]
Continue reading Water and the Web of Life
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Meredith DeFrancesco
On Tuesday, the Lamoine Conservation Commission, the Bar Harbor Conservation Commission, the Union River Watershed Coalition, and Food & Water Watch, sponsored a showing of the documentary film “Tapped” and a panel discussion on bottled water and its impacts. Today we bring you excerpts from the panel discussion and question and answer session. The panelists are Rep. Jim Schatz of Blue Hill; Emily Posner, Coordinator for Defending Water for Life in [...]
Continue reading WERU coverage of "Tapped" documentary showing and panel
It is unfortunate that you have chosen to give former law Professor Orlando Delogu what appears to be the final word on the issue of large water extractions in the town of Wells. He is long on pronouncements and short on insight, with a narrow lens through which he decides what is good for us and what is not.
Equally inappropriate is your headline for his April 27 column, which continues to muddy the issue of water extraction (“There’s [...]
Continue reading Poland Spring issue still boiling
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