From the Town Landing: Drawing the line on spatial planning

Managing the nation’s ocean waters has got to be one of the most vexing and complicated resource-management tasks governments attempt. It’s about to get a lot more complicated.

From the Town Landing: Voting with their fins

Now that the dust has settled from the intense political debate that swirled through the Copenhagen climate change conference, we should ask ourselves what the current research indicates for the future of fisheries in the Gulf of Maine.

Beyond power: Will offshore wind development bring jobs?

The development of offshore wind power projects, as well as Maine’s goal to create 15,000 jobs, are dependent on a number of factors.

Fathoming: What we know about rockweed

A primary role of rockweed in the ecosystem is physical, as habitat. Animals move around between plants and with the tides, and scientists only have snapshots of what species are in a rockweed bed at any given time.

Islands can help fight global warming

Each person, each island community can contribute to this global rescue. We can still do a lot to protect the world we live in.

As electric co-op conducts sound experiment, Vinalhaven residents debate solution to turbine noise issue

Neighbors were asked to fill out detailed logs for the month of February describing the sounds the turbines make. The turbines will be slowed down at random rates and times between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Fathoming: What are the marine impacts of offshore wind turbines?

Today there aren’t any wind turbines off Maine’s coast, but there may be in the next few years. Maine is actively pursuing ocean wind energy, as are other states, and European nations have already installed over 700 offshore turbines.

Objects in Mirror: Gotcha

Politicizing Community Wind to Sell Newspapers

The Long View: Offshore wind and the public trust

From the Town Landing: New England food fight

Field Notes: Making the invisible visible