Category: WERU News Report

WERU News Report 1/9/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Segment 1: “Searching for Occupy”, a cross-country tour and documentary production;
Segment 2: Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Investigates Tax Breaks & Subsidies for Assault Weapons Manufacturers

Interviews with:
Crystal Zevon, “Searching for Occupy” (FMI: www.searchingforoccupy.com )
Naomi Schalit and John Christie, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting (FMI: www.pinetreewatchdog.org )

WERU News Report 1/2/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Proponents of the 23 million gallon LPG tank and facility proposed for Searsport, cite jobs as a primary reason for their support, but at the public hearings on the issue held in November, several Searsport business owners who already create jobs in the town testified that their businesses would suffer. Today we hear excerpts from their testimony.

WERU News Report 12/18/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

The mining industry rewrites Maine’s laws for themselves, & what’s the plan for all that LPG?

*Who is involved in the re-writing of Maine’s mining regulations? *What are the potential impacts of open-pit mining in the state? *What are some of the questions & speculation about uses for the large amounts of LPG that DCP would like to import through Searsport?

-Interview with Dylan Vorhees, Natural Resources Council of Maine (www.nrcm.org)
-Recorded excerpts from Searsport Planning Board public hearings in November 2012

WERU News Report 12/12/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
“Tar Sands Coming to Maine? What to Expect”

*National Wildlife Federation’s new report: “Crude Behavior: TransCanada, Enbridge, and the Tar Sands Industry’s Tarnished Legacy”
*Enbridge & Trailbreaker pipeline project
*Experiences elsewhere

Guests:
Dylan Voorhees, Natural Resources Council of Maine
Joe Mendelson, director of climate and energy policy, National Wildlife Federation
Gillian McEachern, deputy director, Environmental Defence (Canada)
Jeffrey Insko, Michigan landowner and tar sands blogger
Jane Kleeb, executive director, Bold Nebraska
Peter LaFontaine, report author and energy advisor, National Wildlife Federation

The full report, “Crude Behavior: TransCanada, Enbridge, and the Tar Sands Industry’s Tarnished Legacy” is available at www.nwf.org/crudebehavior)

WERU News Report 12/11/12

Producer/Host:Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman & Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Mainers on the “Fiscal Cliff”

*The impacts the “fiscal cliff”/”fiscal obstacle course” may have on our communities
*Speakers recorded at a rally on Friday, 12/7/12, outside the Federal Building in Bangor
*Garrett Martin of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, speaking at a public forum on the fiscal cliff, held at the Bangor Public Library on 12/10/12