If I’m ever trapped in a city under siege I will consider starting an insect farm. Until then I’ll content myself with correcting some of the misstatements quoted by Mark LaFlamme in his article about bugs for dinner (Sun Journal, Feb. 7). This is especially important since the presentation he attended was directed at school […]
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S. McGuire: Stop the blight on Western Maine
A few years ago, a civil engineer, a man who builds wind power installations in the Midwest, spoke at a public hearing in Dixfield. He said the people of Maine should fight industrial wind as hard as they could. He said, “You can’t live near these things.” You also can’t live near the high-tension power […]
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S. McGuire: There are better technologies
This is in response to Jeremy Payne and Jeff Marks’ guest column (Oct. 5) on alternative energy. I would point out that all such projects have downsides. Those downsides can be social, economic or environmental, and some projects have major problems on all three fronts. The only green energy source with no environmental downside is […]
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S. McGuire: Wind power isn’t green power
I see that Maine Audubon has now come out in favor of industrial wind farms, saying that it’s possible to site them so as to “minimize” wildlife impacts. Or they think maybe the industry will play nice and shut the turbines down whenever a bird or bat flies past. Maybe. And maybe cigarettes don’t cause […]