Penobscot Bay podcast

Penobscot Bay podcast

People and sounds that are important parts of Penobscot Bay : its wild gulls, and bouldery landwash, the call and chant refrains of Penobscot Bay foghorns hard at work on fishing boats and lighthouses, on a socked-in morning. The thoughts, memoirs and plans of the people of the bay, from retired highliners to busy harbormasters and state and federal government officials under whose stewardship some aspect of Maine's biggest bay falls.

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Rockland Maine poet laureate emeritus Kendall Merriam reads from his recent and past works

November 27, 2015 • 18 mins
On November 21, 2015, Rockland poet Kendall Merriam visited WRFR's studio and read three poems and the introduction to his 1980s work Medvedb's Journal The reading starts with the recenty written "Bear Dance" a poetic tribute to Merriam's long time friend the late Gunnar Hansen. This is followed by a reading of Hansens introduction to Merriam's book "Medvedb's Journal". It is entitled Medved dances. Next: "An open Po...
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Maine Task force answers questions about Norwegian floating windpower plan

May 23, 2012 • 20 mins
On May 23rd the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a two hour virtual meeting of the Maine Ocean Energy Task Force to discuss next steps for reviewing energy giant Statoil's plan to deploy four deepwater wind turbines 12+ miles off Brunswick, Maine. The meeting was followed at 3pm by this 25 minute public conference call in which BOEM officialo Aditi Mirani led a question and answer session about the meeting and a...
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Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine, May 20, 2010 Part 3

May 21, 2010 • 50 mins
Part 3 of May 20, 2010 meeting at Rockport Opera House, Rockport Maine. 50 Minutes Long. Topics: Plan for windfarm on Camden Hills's Ragged Mountain, and a question and answer session, including Des Fitzgerald of Principle Power about his company's offshore windmill designs
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Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine, May 20, 2010 Part 2

May 21, 2010 • 52 mins
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Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine May 20,. 2010 Part 1

May 21, 2010 • 42 mins
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The Emperor Lays an Egg - read by Kalen Darney.

September 7, 2009 • 14 mins
Emperors are known for many things, but only an amazing emperor - the Emperor Penguin- lays eggs. Find out how and why in this fascinating book by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Joan Paley. Read to you by Kalen Darney, on WRFR Community Radio's Penobscot Bay Report for September 3, 2009
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Energy Ocean: Obama's Dept of Interior sets course for US wave & tidal energy

June 15, 2009 • 41 mins
On June 15, 2009 Maureen Bornholdt of the federal Office of Offshore Alternative Energy Programs gave this 40 minute keynote speech to the participants of Energy Ocean 09, at the Samoset Resort in Rockport Maine. Bornholdt describes how her office (a branch of the US Interior Department) has been given the mandate of rationalizing the exploitation of alternative ocean energy in federal and US EEZ waters. To that end she...
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Weekend Roundtable - Maine state prison warden, officials under self-investigation

May 31, 2009 • 29 mins
Today's 30 minute podcast reviews an recent article by Kim Lincoln of Village Soup's Rockland Herald Gazette on the interim results of an investigation by OPEGA, Maine's Office of Program Evaluation & Government Accountability, into the wrongdoings of Maine state prison officials, including Warden Jeffery Merrill and assistant corrections commissioner Denise Lord. Interlaced with a few choice excerpts of Jimi Hendrix ...
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Sears Island defenders loudly cry foul at Maine Governor's "environment award" ceremony.

May 24, 2009 • 23 mins
In this week's 24 minute long edition of the weekend roundtable, I talk about, and play an excerpt of, our band of grassroots activists hectoring Big Green, Big Government and Big Trade outside the governor's mansion in Augusta, Maine. The latest skirmish in our fight to keep the western third of 940 acre wild Sears island from being turned into railyard and container port, and the estuary's nursery shoals from being blast...
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Prison Solitaire - the fight against torture in Maine.

May 18, 2009 • 15 mins
This week's Weekend Roundtable features a caller commenting on Maine's continuing use of torture in its prisons. He describes his own experience being put in sensory deprivation conditions during his incarceration for a marijuana offense. He also describes how difficult it is to get training at vocational schools in Maine if you are an ex-con. He also mentioned the protest against torture that took place at the Maine stat...
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Groundfish - nearshore and inshore industry could restart

May 14, 2009 • 24 mins
On May 13, 2009 Robin Alden, executive Director of Penobscot East, and Jeff Smith of The nature Conservancy gave a presentation of the Maine Legislture's Marine Resources Committee. First Jeff Smith of TNC describes a plan, endorsed by MidCoast Fishermen's Association, Penobscot East, Island Institute and others, to use philanthropists to purchase federal groundfish permits. The permits would be limited to use by downe...
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Penobscot Bay Scallopers Part 2- the ecological ethic at work

April 28, 2009 • 33 mins
Scallopers Michael Keating and Arthur Alley talk for 33 minutes with WRFR Community Radio's Ron Huber about their fishery in southwest Penobscot Bay, about the regulators who rule their fisheries and about the importance of keeping the complete ecosystem of the Bay and Gulf of Maine healthy.
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Scallopers prognosis for bay

April 24, 2009 • 39 mins
On April 23, 2009 scallopers Arthur Alley and Michael Keating visited the studio of WRFR Community Radio in Rockland,to talk about scallops and the state of Penobscot Bay.
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Open Maine Rivers - Kerry Hardy tells legislators.

April 19, 2009 • 13 mins
Legislature's Natural Resources Committee held a public hearing on LD 1282 "An Act To Protect and Enhance Maine Marine Fisheries." The bill would requires the owners of hydropower dams in Maine to enable safe and reliable passage over or around them for Maine's diadromous fishes. This recording is 14 minutes of testimony by Kerry Hardy of Rockland, who lays out the historic distribution of diadromous fishes in Maine, t...
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Scallopers & DMR talk closed areas at meeting in Rockland

April 10, 2009 • 37 mins
On April 8, 2009 Maine DMR hosted a meeting at the Rockland Ferry terminal to discuss potential closed aras within the waters of Penobscot Bay and Muscongus Bay. Listen to a 37 minute meeting of several dozen scallopers, led by Togue Braun, DMR's scallop expert
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Scalloper Michael Keating of Owls Head talks about stewarding the riches of Penobscot Bay's Mussel Ridge

March 29, 2009 • 41 mins
The Mussel Ridge archipelago of islets and ledges in southwest Penobscot Bay is interlaced by swirling currents of water from both the Gulf of Maine and the Penobscot River, which each spring travels as a giant plume of snowmelt freshwater from the river's 8,500 square mile watershed all the way to the southwestern edges of Penobscot Bay, bringing an untold wealth of nutrients to the waiting bay ecosystems. Michael Kea...
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Eelgrass Workshop's grim findings for New England & Atlantic Canada

February 27, 2009 • 43 mins
On February 24th & 25th the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment and a host of other NGOs held a workshop in Portland titled "Status, Trends and Conservation of Eelgrass in Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States." Keynote Speaker was Dr Frederick Short of the University of New Hampshire's Jackson Estuarine Lab. He also directs the SeagrassNet Global Monitoring Program, and is Vice President...
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Sears Island: Mitigating allows Mutilating the Penobscot river/bay interface

February 16, 2009 • 17 mins
This is a shorter reposting of BayWatch talking by phone to Harlan McLaughlin, president of Fair Play for Sears Island. Harlan explains the mitigation process that the MDOT hopes to foist over Mainers with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers. We commiserate over what a mess the Maine Chapter of the Sierra Club has made of Sears Island by teaming up with the Maine Dept of Transportation. As always, the sounds of Penobs...
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Weekend Roundtable: Earth First! inmates, and an ex-inmate phones in to the show.

January 11, 2009 • 40 mins
Enjoy a 40+ minute show that includes an overview of the state of corrections in Maine and elsewhere, and segues into a lengthy phone conversation with a retired inmate, or ex-con, who phoned in and promises to call again next week, with a guide to etiquette and survival for the incarcerated. All interlaced with Jimi Hendrix. This show aired over WRFR lpfm, community radio for coastal Knox County, Maine -Ron Huber, prod...
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Rockland Seafood : Jess' Market & the Lobster Crisis.

December 19, 2008 • 2 mins
On December 17th, Penobscot Bay Report's Ron Huber spoke with Jamie Johnson of Jess'Market on South Main Street in Rockland, Maine, about how the trade in lobsters and other live and fresh Maine- and Gulf of Maine-caught seafood is going in this time of a devalued dollar and a contracting economy. Ten minutes. See www.jessmarket.com
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