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"For much of the state of Maine, the environment is the economy" |
Photographs © 2005 Old Sow Publishing
About 1,200 people from around Passamaquoddy Bay attended. Problems with fog prevented ferry services on Deer Island, NB, and Grand Manan, NB, from bringing even more people.
The forum began with a Passamaquoddy prayer...
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Campobello Island fisherman Gary Cook sang his song, "Head Harbour Lighthouse." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marine biologist Arthur MacKay gave a thorough presentation on the marine, social, and economic assets that would be negatively affected by an LNG terminal here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance coordinator Linda Godfrey spoke on the importance of all communities around the bay working together to make life better by utilizing our existing assets and abilities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charlie Atherton, flew to the forum from Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Quoddy Bay LLC had used the Lake Charles LNG facility as a model site while wooing the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribal Government to partner with them. |
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Atherton discussed how like water makes a desert bloom LNG attracts many other types of heavy, polluting industries, irreversibly destroying the natural assets around the industrialized area, as has happened at Lake Charles.
See our page "A Conversation with Charlie Atherton." |
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The Town of St. Andrews went to great expense to provide sound, lighting, and visual services to the attentive crowd. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of Parliament Greg Thompson advocated preventing tankers with hazardous cargos from traversing Head Harbour Passage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Politicians from several New Brunswick communities spoke out against LNG in Passamaquoddy Bay.
On the other hand, Downeast LNG and Quoddy Bay LLC, who, respectively had originally asked for the forum, and to appear at the forum along with numerous Maine politicians who were personally invited by the St. Andrews Mayor Craig to present their views regarding LNG all failed to appear. The developers and pro-LNG Maine politicians apparently weren't able to provide convincing-enough reasons to support an LNG facility in Passamaquoddy Bay. |
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Rick Doucet, Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, representing Charlotte County | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shawn Graham, Leader of the Provincial Liberal Party and Official Opposition | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stan Smith, Mayor of St. George | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Terry James, Mayor of Blacks Harbour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St. Andrews Mayor John Craig led
a chant, "'No' means 'no'!" to LNG. |
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Representative of the Sierra Club, Canada. | New Brunswick Passamaquoddy member (left) with a representative of Indian and Northern Affairs (right). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribal member | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Several people from many communities around the bay spoke their minds regarding LNG. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastport resident | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Campobello Island resident and fisherman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Several politicians sported "No LNG" buttons.
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