Penobscot Bay Report May 8, 2008 - a podcast by Penobscot Bay Report

Today's podcast features an interview with Harlan McLaughlin, president of Fair Play for Sears Island. Sears Island has been defended people living nearby and from around the bay against efforts to build a nuclear power plant, a coal power plant, a woodchip port, an LNG port, and now, a container port. This latest gambit amazingly finds Maine Sierra Club on the side of the industrial port wannabes.

Settling for half a loaf, the Maine chapter has conceded that big industry may build a port on the island, so long as it meets agency standards. Up to 1/3 of the 940 acre island could be terraformed. Big loser in the negotiations: eelgrass. The magic meadows along the west side of Sears Island nourish the great upper estuary of :Penobscot Bay, a place where river and bay come together in an ecosystem that nourishes and nurtures the groundfish, salmon, herring, mackerel, striped bass, bluefish and shrimp that live in or visit Penobscot Bay.

All could be lost if a toxic container port sets up on Sears island, as proposed by government and industry. And Sierra Club!

Listen to a twenty minute discussion between Huber and McLauglin discussing this important subject.

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