Maine’s members of Congress lobby for wind project – West Coast Influence, Oregon and Washington delegations

March 9, 2014 Mid Atlantic, National, New England, Offshore Wind/Industrialization, Pacific, South Atlantic

Most of Maine’s representatives to Congress have been ardent supporters of both inland and offshore wind. Read more here 11:04

The Champions of Ocean Industrialization, and Ocean Zoning. Opening your East Coast for windmills, offshore drilling for oil and gas, and mineral extraction. I consider all of them hypocritical enemies of the entire East Coast fishing industry. Rethink, elected officials. You are for us, or against us with your offshore wind pandering. “looking out” for working people?

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It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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