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Ford was invited to Searsport by "Safe Power for Maine," a local citizens' group which hopes to publicize the nuclear power issue throughout the state, and to resist plans by Central Maine Power Co. to build a plant on Sear's island in Penobscot...
There are some genuine Robinson Crusoes, like Robert McCloskey, an author-illustrator of delightful children's books on his island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, who are addicted to the sweet air, the silence, the succulent lobsters and the congenial natives...
...Penobscot Indian Nation...
...pincers of population and industry. More than 75% of the region's 11,847,186 inhabitants live in cities, and most of those cities and their industries are situated along the coast. Their effluents are fouling the water. Untreated sewage and industrial wastes discharged into portions of the Penobscot River in Maine have created sludge beds in the river and bay, and the oxygen levels of the water have been drastically reduced. This, in turn, is believed to be responsible for decreasing shellfish harvests in the Penobscot region...
Maine's Environmental Improvement Commission, an agency charged with approving all big developments in the state, last week turned down a proposal for a $150 million oil refinery in Searsport, a small town at the head of Penobscot Bay. After five months of deliberations, the commission concluded that: the refinery would lack the financial and technical ability to meet state air-and water-pollution control standards, the advent of supertankers would mean potential oil spillage, and the new refinery would not "fit harmoniously into the natural environment" of the ruggedly beautiful bay area...