Jonathan Carter and Jym St. Pierre at Portland City Hall Monday July 16th
Restore: The North Woods and Forest Ecology Network blasted Cianbro Corp.’s East-West Highway proposal on Monday, charging that the likely route would affect conservation sites and hurt the state’s economy by damaging its “brand” as a wild and natural place.
At a press conference in Portland City Hall’s State of Maine Room, Jonathan Carter director of Forest Ecology Network suggested that the highway proposal actually was secondary to industry’s desire to have a potential resource and utilities corridor across the state with transmission lines carrying power and telecommunications and pipelines carrying tar sands gas, oil, water and other resources Continue reading
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