(Photo courtesy Belfast Climate Crisis Committee)
In early February 2021 Summit Gas announced a $90 million extension of a gas pipeline along Maine’s Midcoast, from Belfast to Thomaston. Summit predicted that this would greatly reduce greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions. On March 2, Summit withdrew this plan due to community opposition. What now?
Join Belfast Climate Crisis Committee and Belfast Free Library for a Zoom presentation on Monday, March 29, 2021, from 6 to 8 p.m., as they seek answers.
“The heating of our world (the climate crisis) is largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels,” said the Climate Committee, in a news release. “The crisis requires us to respond wisely in deciding what energy sources we use in our communities. How will we reduce our use of GHG – producing fuels while caring for our citizens? What important local and regional decisions must we make to meet the goals of our Maine Climate Action Plan?”
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Scene from the documentary “Frozen Obsession,” on the Northwest Passage Project expedition to the Arctic. Courtesy photo
The Swedish research icebreaker Oden. Courtesy photo
The Camden Conference and Belfast Free Library will present “Frozen Obsession” Monday, March 15 at 6 p.m. before it airs on PBS later this year.
This film documents the 18-day, 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the Canadian Arctic aboard the Swedish research icebreaker
Oden. “Frozen Obsession” highlights the research done by scientists and students as they work to understand the consequences of changing climate in the Arctic. As “Frozen Obsession” bears witness to a dramatically changing Arctic, and the urgent efforts of science to understand the consequences, we gain a sobering assessment of what s at stake. But in a hopeful turn, the film also witnesses the exhilarating life-changing experiences of the students on this expedition,
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Kay Stephens
Photo courtesy Marshall Wharf
One of Coffin’s cartoons on tourists. Photo of artwork by Kay Stephens
My own version of a Ploughman’s Lunch can be taken to go. Photo by Kay Stephens
Nothing finer than an Umlaut Kölsh on a dismal, wintry day, with a roaring fire right next to you and a friendly dog nearby. Photo by Kay Stephens
Here we go: March, 2021. Officially one year into a pandemic and the month that Maine went into shut-down mode last year. Right about now, a good number of people are getting antsy to get out and do something anything! A road trip. A socially distanced social.