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Sunday, June 7
"Energy Poker: Can Maine Turn
Aces and Eights into a Royal Flush?"
Angus King Addresses Maine’s Energy Future at CONA Annual Meeting
 Former
Maine Governor Angus King (at left) proposes the creation of a huge wind
farm in the Gulf of Maine to lessen Maine's dependence on foreign oil.
Harnessing the power of the wind by developing new wind turbine technology
for use some 20 miles off the coast could ultimately provide all of Maine's
energy needs, and also help the needs of other states.
King said 80 percent of the homes in Maine rely on heating oil, leaving
Maine families extremely vulnerable to rising oil prices. Maine's offshore
areas have some of the most consistent and strongest winds in the nation, he
said, making it the ideal place for the building of a prototype offshore
wind farm.
The Maine government is interested in the idea, he said, as are officials in
Washington. Implementation of the idea, he said, would create thousands of
jobs for Maine citizens, and would require both public and private
financing. It would probably take about 10 years to get the wind farm up and
running, once a decision to build such a center were made.
In answer to questions, King, said the United States needs to look at all
kinds of alternative energy sources, although he said he was not a fan of
nuclear power because no way has yet been devised to safely store the spent
fuel.
King, an independent, served two terms as governor, from 1995-2003. He
currently resides in Brunswick and is working on two conventional wind farm
proposals in western Maine.
 At
the business meeting before King spoke, members elected a new CONA board for
the coming year. New board member,
Lincoln Academy incoming senior Chloe Maxmin (right), was
announced. She spoke briefly about the
climate action club she started at her school. Continuing on the
board are Millie Baggs, Doris Balant, Jenny Begin, Rosie Bensen, Joe
Brennan, Sharon Crosbie, Wendy Ross Eichler, Gretchen Hull, Kay Liss, Guy
Marsden, Alayne McLeod, Don Means, Linda Pope, Michael Stevens and George
Van Deventer.
Retiring from the board are Jean Harris and Ted Clapp.
2009:
June -- CONA annual meeting, with former
Maine Governor Angus King speaking on his proposal for a huge wind farm in
the Gulf of Maine.
May -- In conjunction with Maine Audubon, the showing of
the hour-long independent film Division Street, that highlights the adverse
impact highways have on wildlife, and ways to mitigate the effect.
April -- The first annual Green
Beginnings -- a celebration of the end of the long winter featuring music,
garden-related activities and organic foods donated by Rising Tide Market.
March -- A forum on aging, health and
quality of life in the Damariscotta region featuring four local experts in
the field.
February -- Diano Circo with the Natural
Resources Council of Maine on the challenges facing Maine's north woods and
what his organization is doing to try to protect the lands and waters from
unwise development.
January -- Peaceful Beginnings -- CONA's annual
celebration of the New Year.
2008:
December -- CONA's
annual Potluck and Poetry event, this time
featuring the Pemaquid Poets.
November -- Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision -- a forum
on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
(read
about this event in an LCN article)
October -- a talk by student members of
the Lincoln Academy's Climate Action Club.
June --
CONA annual
meeting, with author and professor Anouar Majid speaking on dissent in Islam
and America.
April -- Andrea Licata on the opposition
in Italy to the expansion of a U.S. airbase in Vicenza, Italy.
March --
International reproductive health and family planning discussed by Julia G.
(Judy) Kahrl of Pathfinder International.
January -- Peaceful
Beginnings -- CONA's annual celebration of the New Year.
2007:
Betsy Scholl, Maine's
Poet Laureate reads at Potluck and Poetry
Bruce Gagnon "Star Wars
and U.S. Empire"
Stephen
Wessler: Preventing Bias, Harassment and
Violence in Schools and Communities
(October)
Helen
Weld, RN, and Dr. Judy Sandick report from Pakistan (Sept.)
JONATHAN CLARKE
CONA ANNUAL MEETING SPEAKER (June)
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2006:
Exhibit of “Americans Who Tell the Truth” in
Damariscotta (March)
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2006:
DON LORD, PH.D. and author of DUBYA: THE TOXIC TEXAN -- GEORGE W. BUSH
AND Peaceful Beginnings (January)
A Report from Pakistan (January)
Wal-Mart debate (February)
Ted Ames,
“The State of
North-east Fisheries” (March)
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION”; (April)
Jan Schrock, “Heifer International, Peacemaker” (May)
HELEN THOMAS, CONA Annual Meeting (June)
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2005:
Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Battle for America's
Soul (February)
Invisible - film documentary about Native Americans living in Maine (March)
Unipolar Worlds: The
British Empire and the New American Imperialism. (April)
Cuba on
the Mind: Considerations of Justice and Independence (May)
Reza Jalali
speaks about Iran (September)
Who gets hurt when Maine discriminates (October)
A Southern Perspective (November)
Potluck and Poetry
(December)
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2004:
Peaceful Beginnings (January)
no other records...
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2003:
Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Empire Without End (January)
Co-sponsored with the Skidompha Library, Poets Against the War.org and
area poets, CONA at the Movies also held a poetry reading on February
12,
titled "Poems For Peace"
Brave New World (February)
The American emergency and Some Things We Can Do (March)
Biodiesel: A Renewable Liquid Fuel (May)
Stealing the Heart of the Democratic Process (June)
The Hidden Price of Globalization(September)
Making Hope Work in a Troubled World (October)
Maine tax reform proposals (October)
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2002:
Peaceful Beginnings (January)
Fighting for Peace(January)
The Earth Charter (February)
Affordable Health Care in Maine (March)
American Culture in a Time of Stress (April)
Alternative to war: A people's movement in Colombia (October)
War on Iraq: International and Regional Consequences (October)
Hope Rises from the Ashes of MyLai, Vietnam (November)
Potluck and Poetry (December)
Movie: The trials of Henry Kissinger (December)
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2001:
- Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the
Community)(January)
- Balkans Update (February)
- Report from Cuba (March)
- The Tax Cut Issue (April)
- Electoral Reform(May)
- Shelly Pingree on Democracy (June - annual meeting)
- Change, Challenges and Prospects for a US-Cuban Relationship (October)
- Sprawl (October)
Dialogue: A Pathway to Peace (November)
- Potluck and Poetry (December)
2000:
- Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the
Community)(January)
- GM Food: The Science and the Politics of Genetically Modified
Food (February)
- The World Trade Organization and Democracy (March)
- Sowing for Need or Sowing for Greed (March); a film on GM
seeds’ impact on farming Land Mines, Power and Responsibility
(April)
- The Death Penalty (May)
- Applied Compassion (June - annual meeting)
- Third Party Politics (October)
- Globalization and Militarization in Chiapas, Mexico (November
1999:
- Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the
Community)(January)
- The Forgotten Maine (Film) (February)
- Y2K, a Community Forum (March)
- Child Labor In Pakistan (April)
- Corporate World Rule and Democracy (June - annual meeting)
- Health Care: Alternative Options (September)
- Kosovo and the Politics of the Balkans (October)
- Meeting Our Gay and Lesbian Neighbors (November)
- Potluck and Poetry (December)
1998
- Peaceful Beginnings (Multi-program Open House for the
Community)(January)
- Developmental Assets (Lincoln Co. Juvenile Task Force)
(February)
- Next Steps Toward Abolition: De-Alerting & Ratification of
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (March)
- The Tobacco Settlement (April)
- Money In Our Lives (May)
- Arts in the City (June - Annual Meeting)
- Understanding Today’s Nuclear Threat (August)
- Propaganda In Our Culture (September)
- Solving Disputes Among the Youth in our Community
(October)
- The Carpenter’s Boatshop and the Community it has
Nourished(November)
- “Affluenza” (Video presentation) (December)
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1997
- Propaganda and How it Controls Our Lives (June)
- The Economy as if People Mattered (July)
- Hiroshima Day Commemoration (August)
- Ithaca Hours (Video program on local currencies) (August)
- Cuba through an Organic Farmer’s Eyes (September)
- Simpler Living: Alternatives to Consumer Living (October)
- The Day After the Election: What Next? (November)
- Concepts of Beauty and Ugliness in the
Creation of the Human Face (art) (December)
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