Comments on: The Winds of Change http://www.clf.org/blog/uncategorized/the-winds-of-change/ For a thriving New England Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth Kaplan http://www.clf.org/blog/uncategorized/the-winds-of-change/#comment-53 Seth Kaplan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:28:16 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=119#comment-53 The post was not intended to make a comment one way or the other about any proposed project, port expansion or otherwise. Building clean energy infrastructure and preserving local habit and ecosystems are both very important goals. As always, CLF will work closely with local communities on these issues. We may not always agree about conclusions (although very often we will !) but we should always approach each other with respect. On a personal note - in the early 1990's I did "back office" legal work on the Sears Island case for CLF and in the late 1990's I was the lead advocate for CLF in a successful effort (waged in close alliance with many local groups) to keep a containerized cargo port out of Quonset Point on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The post was not intended to make a comment one way or the other about any proposed project, port expansion or otherwise. Building clean energy infrastructure and preserving local habit and ecosystems are both very important goals. As always, CLF will work closely with local communities on these issues. We may not always agree about conclusions (although very often we will !) but we should always approach each other with respect.

On a personal note – in the early 1990′s I did “back office” legal work on the Sears Island case for CLF and in the late 1990′s I was the lead advocate for CLF in a successful effort (waged in close alliance with many local groups) to keep a containerized cargo port out of Quonset Point on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

]]> By: Ron Huber http://www.clf.org/blog/uncategorized/the-winds-of-change/#comment-52 Ron Huber Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:06:18 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=119#comment-52 Is this post an attempt to test the waters as to whether CLF can join Sierra Club and the shipping industry and turn a blind eye on the proposed destruction of the irreplaceable natural assets of western Sears Island and its adjoining groundfish nursery shoal? Let's hope not! Making Searsport "competitive" with other existing Maine and New England ports in the very tiny business of being an entrepot for foreign turbine blades, by slaughtering Penobscot Bay's largest fish and shellfish nursery and paving 100s of acres of the unique native assemblage of upland, forested wetlands, marshes and streams on the west side of Sears Island - would be pound-foolish in the extreme! CLF-ers of today need to read their group's archives and find out why 1990s CLF attorney Dan Sosland so fiercely and so successfully defended Sears Island from a succession of shortsighted Maine governors. Ron Is this post an attempt to test the waters as to whether CLF can join Sierra Club and the shipping industry and turn a blind eye on the proposed destruction of the irreplaceable natural assets of western Sears Island and its adjoining groundfish nursery shoal?

Let’s hope not! Making Searsport “competitive” with other existing Maine and New England ports in the very tiny business of being an entrepot for foreign turbine blades, by slaughtering Penobscot Bay’s largest fish and shellfish nursery and paving 100s of acres of the unique native assemblage of upland, forested wetlands, marshes and streams on the west side of Sears Island – would be pound-foolish in the extreme!

CLF-ers of today need to read their group’s archives and find out why 1990s CLF attorney Dan Sosland so fiercely and so successfully defended Sears Island from a succession of shortsighted Maine governors.
Ron

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