October 12, 2007
Locals protest Wiscasset gasification plant
Wiscasset lobstermen Thursday protested a proposed coal gasification plant on the Sheepscot River that they said would disrupt fishing grounds.
More than 25 lobster boats trolled the river and 100 protestors gathered at the town landing to voice their concerns that coal barges would damage traps and cut into fishing time, the Portland Press Herald reported. The $1.5 billion Twin River Energy Center, proposed in July by Connecticut-based National RE/sources, would occupy land on part of the former Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, and convert coal and wood biomass into electricity and clean-burning diesel fuel. The company says it has not yet decided how it will transport the coal, and may move it by train, the paper reported.
Meanwhile, Twin River Energy Center awaits a public vote on Nov. 6 to decide whether to amend a building-height ordinance to allow for the 230-foot-tall plant.
More than 25 lobster boats trolled the river and 100 protestors gathered at the town landing to voice their concerns that coal barges would damage traps and cut into fishing time, the Portland Press Herald reported. The $1.5 billion Twin River Energy Center, proposed in July by Connecticut-based National RE/sources, would occupy land on part of the former Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, and convert coal and wood biomass into electricity and clean-burning diesel fuel. The company says it has not yet decided how it will transport the coal, and may move it by train, the paper reported.
Meanwhile, Twin River Energy Center awaits a public vote on Nov. 6 to decide whether to amend a building-height ordinance to allow for the 230-foot-tall plant.
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