Category: WERU News Report

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic(s): Why do the Natural Resources Council of Maine support wind power? Do they dispute information provided by protesters (specifically on last week’s show)? An interview with their spokesperson. Also, a local short story by Norm Snowden

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic: Interviews with participants at a protest outside the ribbon cutting ceremony for First Wind’s Rollin Project, Lincoln, Maine
Why are they opposed to the project? Do they not believe it will provide clean energy? Are similar things happening in other Maine communites?

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topics: John Christie of the Center for Public Interest Reporting with the latest in his series of report on the troubled Maine State Pension system (www.pinetreewatchdog.org); Peter Didisheim, Natural Resources Council of Maine with a “progress report” on the LePage administration’s anti-environmental legislative wishlist (www.nrcm.org)

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe
Topic(s): The 22nd Pastors for Peace Friendshipment to Cuba (fund-raiser and Canadian crossing) The Maine-based group “Let Cuba Live” has been partnering with other organizations for many years, to educate the public about the US blockade on Cuba, and to send humanitarian aid to that country in defiance of the blockade. Their most recent mission was earlier this month. Recorded by Carolyn Coe of Let Cuba Live

FMI: www.letcubalive.org, www.ifconews.org

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Producer/Host: Amy Browne