Tag: DCP

Mid-Coast Currents 4/19/13

Host: John Zavodny
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Searsport Maine LPG Tank

Key Discussion Points:
1 Why was the LPG tank permit denied by the Searsport Planning Board?
2 What is next for members of Thanks But No Tank?
3 What are some lessons to be learned from TBNT success?

Guests:
a Astrig Tanguay has owned and managed Searsport Shores Ocean Campground for twenty years. Astrig is a founding member of Thanks But No Tank, Astrig has been a vocal opponent of the DCP project. Astrig has served on the Maine Tourism Commission, the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Campground Owners Association, Penobscot Bay Steward BOD and is a founding member of both Friends of Penobscot Bay and Fiber College of Maine.
b Ken Agabian started working as the Thanks but No Tank coordinator in July 2012. Since then Ken has travelled the mid coast talking about the tank in Searsport and has communicated weekly the status of the project and what folks could do. Formerly, Ken worked with nonprofits in the arts and publishing worlds and is a graduate of Clark University, Worcester, Mass. where he was a student intern at the Environmental Protection Agency.

For More Information:
tbnt.org
http://www.searsport.maine.gov/

Mid-Coast Currents 11/19/12

Producer/Host: John Zavodny
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: Searsport Maine LPG Tank

Key Discussion Points:
What are the arguments for and against the Searsport LPG tank?
How do people in the mid-coast think about the tank?
What have been the dynamics involved in the tank conversation?

Guests:
Maryjean Crowe, an artist and educator, and Peter Wilkinson, a photographer and a journalist, are Belfast residents who got involved in the tank opposition after reading about DCP’s proposal in the newspapers, attending Thanks But No Tank presentations, and doing their own research.
Astrig Tanguay has owned and managed Searsport Shores Ocean Campground for twenty years. Astrig is a founding member of Thanks But No Tank, Astrig has been a vocal opponent of the DCP project. Astrig has served on the Maine Tourism Commission, the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Campground Owners Association, Penobscot Bay Steward BOD and is a founding member of both Friends of Penobscot Bay and Fiber College of Maine.
Searsport officials and proponents of the tank were not available to join us in the studio.

For More Information:
tbnt.org
http://www.searsport.maine.gov/

WERU News Report 8/14/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Latest news on the LPG tank proposal in Searsport

*Planning Board grants application extension to DCP *DCP refusal to submit certain information to Maine Fuel Board until assured it would not be made public caused delay *Area residents are commissioning a nationally renowned expert to do a risk assessment

Recorded audio from Searsport Planning Board meeting on 8/13/12

Call In Program: No

WERU News Report 7/10/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Issue: Independent Local News

Program Topic: Searsport Planning Board Receives Complaints from DCP, Bans Public Comments

*Searsport Town Planning board voted 4-1 last night to ban public comments re: pending applications from their regular meetings, after receiving complaints from DCP, the company that wants to build a controversial LPG tank facility
*Area residents tell us what they think about the decision, and what they had been planning to say at the meeting, had they been allowed to do so
*Follow up with Planning Board Chair Bruce Probert

Recorded audio from the planning board meeting, interviews with attendees

Call In Program: No

WERU News Report 6/27/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Issue: Independent Local News

Program Topics: DCP attempts to limit public input on the LPG tank plan; ACLU of Maine on the AZ immigration law ruling; and a review of Medea Benjamin’s new book on Drone Warfare

Key Discussion Points:
a) DCP Midstream, the company that wants to build a massive liquid propane tank facility in Searsport, is attempting to limit public participation at Searsport Planning Board meetings. They also outline several other complaints in a recent letter from their lawyer to the town. Features audio recorded by Ron Huber at the June 11th meeting, and interviews with Ron Huber, Executive Director of Penobscot Bay Watch and Astrig Tanguay, Searsport resident and owner of Searsport Shores Campground. FMI: www.penbay.org ; www.tbnt.org , www.dcpmidstream.com

b) Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of ACLU of Maine, responds to the Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona immigration law and discusses status of similar legislation in Maine FMI: www.aclumaine.org

c) Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine coordinator, reviews Medea Benjamin’s new book, Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote
Control FMI: www.codepink.org

Call In Program: no

WERU News Report 6/13/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Issue: Independent local news
Program Topics: Great Works Dam Removal and Searsport Planning Board Reviews LPG Plans

Key Discussion Points:
a) Monday’s historic kick off of the removal of a 200 year old dam on the Penobscot River.
b) Impacts on the Penobscot Tribe
c) The discussions between the Searsport Town Planning Board and representatives from DCP Midstream, re: the proposed LPG tank

Guests: n/a

Recorded audio: Penobscot Chief Kirk Francis; Searsport Planning Board officials, DCP representatives

Call In Program: No