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Maine Department of Environmental Protection issues report on South Portland oil storage tanks © wmtw sopo oil tanks If you live in South Portland or across the Fore River in certain Portland neighborhoods, you know, from time to time, there can be a foul industrial smell in the air. So, at the behest of the state Legislature, for the past year, Maines Department of Environmental Protection has been collecting air samples in both cities with a focus on 120 South Portland storage tanks that h...

Rare camera obscura raised to roof of Children’s Museum & Theatre The large periscopic camera will once again be available for public viewing when the museum and theater reopen this spring at a new location at Thompsons Point in Portland. Share Rich Szalma, left, and Todd Belaire of Cote Crane and Rigging prepare part of a rare camera obscura to be lifted onto the roof of the new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine at Thompson’s Point in Portland on Thursday. The camera obscura, which p...

3 months ago in Local dtarsetti Photo: clipart.com Maine’s largest city is removing invasive trees from one of its public spaces to restore views of the Fore River. Portland is taking away the Norway maple trees from Western Promenade. City officials say the removal of the trees will also allow more room for a future play space and community garden. Officials say future improvements to the area will include p...

Invasive trees to be removed from Maines largest city © WMTW Portland invasive trees Maine’s largest city is removing invasive trees from one of its public spaces to restore views of the Fore River. Portland is taking away the Norway maple trees from Western Promenade. City officials say the removal of the trees will also allow more room for a future play space and community garden. Sign up for our Newsletters Officials say future improvements to the area will include planting new native ...

Make the most of winter break with these kid-friendly activities Like everything, school vacation week this holiday season will look and feel very different, but there are still lots of things to do virtually and outdoors. Share The Rink at Thompson’s Point in Portland is open for skating and will be during school vacation. Photo courtesy of The Rink at Thompson’s Point. Kids are still going to school, even if it’s online most of the time, and they’re doing it amid all the added pres...

Portland to remove invasive trees from public space December 20, 2020 GMT PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s largest city is removing invasive trees from one of its public spaces to restore views of the Fore River. Portland is taking away the Norway maple trees from Western Promenade. The removal of the trees will also allow more room for a future play space and community garden, city officials said. City officials said future improvements to the area will include planting new native trees and ...

Out of the way, little people — big energy project coming through Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston ...

The new gas pipeline compressor station was set to open this month, but now faces a full safety review.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File 2020 A controversial natural gas compressor station in Weymouth will not start pumping natural gas this week, as the operator had previously indicated, and the start date now depends on the resolution of a full safety review that is not expected until January. Max Bergeron, a spokesman for Enbridge, told the Globe last week that the company was planning to put th...

In Weymouth, a brute lesson in power politics A Globe investigation finds residents who fought a six-year battle with an energy giant over a controversial gas compressor never had much of a chance, with both the federal and state governments consistently ruling against them By Mike Stanton Boston Globe Spotlight Fellow,Updated December 12, 2020, 1:58 p.m. Email to a Friend As the new gas pipeline compressor station (in background) is set to start operating this week, citizen activist Alice Aren...

Designing and constructing a building in the middle of a pandemic requires a flexible mind. That’s what Dan Fishbein learned as developers worked on plans for the new building that his company, Sun Life Financial, will move into in two years. A rendering of Sun Life Financial’s planned office building on the Portland waterfront. Courtesy of Sun Life Financial Ground was broken this week – an event that was attended virtually, of course – on a building that will house the growing benefi...