2006
New Brunswick seeks to halt FERC review of LNG projects
Two weeks after Canadian Ambassador Michael Wilson wrote to the U.S.
Edward French
2006
Creative Apparel calls workers back at Eastport facility
Because of recent contract awards and expected awards, Creative Apparel will be bringing back laid-off stitching personnel at all of its plants in Maine, including the company's Eastport facility.
2006
Fishermen's forum debates support for lobster hatcheries
The question of whether the state should financially support lobster hatcheries and the recording of a significant decline in the number of commercial fisheries licenses in the Cobscook Bay area were among the topics discussed at the eighth annual Cobscook Fisheries Forum, held February 11 at...
2006
Herring rule changes allow midwater trawlers into fishery
The New England Fisheries Management Council (NEFMC) has approved an amendment to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan (FMP) that will allow over a dozen, large midwater trawlers into the Gulf of Maine fishery while eliminating a small Eastport-based purse seiner.
2006
Campobello refuses presentation
Three information sessions by Quoddy Bay LNG concerning its plans to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at Split Rock at Pleasant Point and a storage facility in Perry were met with a range of responses C from strong hostility on Campobello Island to questions about ship transit...
2006
Small schools supporters rally, criticize state funding formula
Supporters of small schools in Maine have been pressing their case that the state's new funding formula is unfair in its distribution of funds to rural schools, as preliminary state subsidy figures were released last week.
2006
Cooke lays off 90 employees at salmon processing plants
Cooke Aquaculture laid off 90 workers at its Blacks Harbour and Beaver Harbour salmon processing plants on January 27. The company took the action because production has been down in recent years and as part of its consolidation following the acquisition of Marine Harvest's east coast operations.