Tag: Searsport Planning Board

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Part 2: E/W Hwy/Corridor: Promoters Peter Vigue and Darryl Brown, gave a presentation about the project for the Penobscot County Commissioners today. During the question and answer period that followed, one person after another tried to get details about the project, which have been closely guarded secrets. Audio recorded by Jane Crosen

(Part 1 aired 4/2/13)

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

*Breaking news: DCP Midstream, the Colorado-based mega-corporation, has WITHDRAWN their application to build a massive LPG tank in Searsport.

*Moving on to the E/W Hwy/Corridor: Promoters Peter Vigue and Darryl Brown, gave a presentation about the project for the Penobscot County Commissioners today. During the question and answer period that followed, one person after another tried to get details about the project, which have been closely guarded secrets. Audio recorded by Jane Crosen

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

An out-of-state corporation’s highly controversial proposal to build a 22.7 million gallon, 14 story tall, liquid propane tank, an associated 90,000 gallon tank, and other structures on a small plot of land in Searsport, is in the hands of the town’s planning board. This week they began deliberations, and for the first time the public had a chance to hear what they think about the plan, after sitting through several months of meetings and public hearings – and reviewing a mountain of documents. And what they had to say was NOT good news for DCP Midstream, the company that wants to build the facility. In the first 2 nights of deliberations this week, the planning board has identified not 1, but FOUR ways in which the proposal does not meeting the town’s criteria for new development.