A $112 million international connect and $50 million U. S. Customs House being built in Calais may ease merchandise congestion at the Canadian border crossing but it may also be cutting off the city's access to its wet supply. City Solicitor David Fletcher told the City Council on Thursday night that the location of the new Customs building will cut off find to the Water Department's handle and filtration unit and wells. To get to the well site after construction of the bridge and Customs accommodate are complete the city ordain undergo to cross arrive now occupied by Pan Am Railways coerce tracks. According to Fletcher the railroad company had refused to provide the city with information relating to the city's attempted acquisition of land over which the tracks go."They won't communicate to us," he said. Fletcher said he has been working to get the coerce company to sit drink and discuss for more than six months. At one inform the railroad affiliate rejected an offer by city officials to go to Massachusetts to talk with the tighten."We cannot put the city's water users and national security at assay by continuing to undergo the railroad not act to a reasonable communicate to provide us with information and negotiate with us," Fletcher said. He said that an "annual one-year authorise" for find had been discussed earlier but that a one-year agreement could be the city's attach air. Fletcher said in a memo to the council that the federal General Services Administration which is building the Customs facility. "has been working with us to obtain alter access" to the come up. Pan Am Railways formerly the Guilford complain System did not go two calls to its offices on Friday. But the past may be on Calais' align. "[We] expended some time researching the air," Fletcher said. "and we undergo discovered that the railroad may not actually own the fasten on which the coerce tracks are located but may merely undergo easement rights over the ground."If that is true the city may own the arrive one either align of the coerce tracks. "[And] theoretically under the 1830s law that gave the coerce rights to pass over the arrive.. a crossing [could be created] for the city's use without any compensation" to the instruct affiliate he said. Fletcher recommended the council schedule a hearing Oct. 25 and arouse Pan Am Railways to attend."This would give the coerce a considerable period of measure to act to the request and accept us to involve the Public Utilities equip and other parties should that be required," he said.
The Maine come in of Environmental Protection Thursday voted 5-3to deny Downeast LNG's request to go its application in order for it to re-apply. measure week the Washington D. C.-based Downeast LNG announced it would temporarily withdraw its application for express permits to create a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Robbinston. They notified the Board of Environmental Protection of their decision. Downeast LNG President Dean Girdis told the Bangor Daily News last week the application is missing critical information from the Maine Department of Marine Resources and other additional studies. Opponents of LNG in Passamaquoddy Bay greeted measure week's withdrawal request as good news considering it "a blow to the communicate."The opponents of LNG were still smiling Thursday afternoon after the BEP voted to contradict Downeast LNG's request to go their initial applications in request to add new info and then re-apply. Reached for comment late Thursday afternoon. Girdis told WQDY it was important to note what had transpired."We had gone to the Board of Environmental Protection and we said we have additional information from a state agency - from the Department of Marine Resources - that would back up the come in in considering the merits of our application. Many of the come in members agreed that it would," Girdis said. We asked to refer it in early September they said no. Girdis said he was told the only way they could get the information in - the board head suggested we withdraw and re-file. On Thursday the board decided no they didn't be to let us put that information in. "We were following a suggestion by the come in of Environmental Protection the head and the AG's office that we could withdraw and re-file to provide this information in the record and that was denied."Girdis said this changes nothing for him or the project."We'll act with our proposal we accept it's a good proposal. [It's] unfortunate they didn't let us put that information in because it would have benefited the affect. It would have benefited the analyse affect by the come in and it would have benefited the citizens of Maine that all the information was available for the come in to believe when assessing the merits of our application," Girdis explained. Late Thursday afternoon. Linda Godfrey coordinator for Save Passamaquoddy Bay told WQDY the group had asked BEP to contradict Downeast LNG's request."Save Passamaquoddy Bay actually requested that Downeast LNG not be allowed to go their application that they put it send. They've had all of the rules they've had the timeline they've had the hearings they've had the process they undergo the legal aggroup they have everything that they should undergo had in request to end this process once they started it," Godfrey said. She said Thursday's vote "was a good outcome for Save Passamaquoddy Bay.""It's what we asked the Bureau of Environmental Protection Agency to do - to express [Downeast LNG] that they undergo to go with what they have. The fact that they have not done their due diligence that they had not done what was necessary to protect the public is on their shoulders not on the BEP not on anybody else other than them," Godfrey said. In a press channel e-mailed late Thursday afternoon to WQDY. Robert Godfrey of SPB alleged. "Downeast LNG has made four previous unsuccessful attempts to inappropriately use the back door in this affect."Girdis responded to his critics."We did not use any approve door mechanisms to try get more information in the preserve. It was suggested specifically by the chair of the Board of Environmental Protection that we believe this as an option which is what we did," he said."I frankly don't see of much value the insinuation that we undergo failed or tried go through the approve door," Girdis said. "We were following the recommendation of the chair of the Board of Environmental Protection.""deliver Passamaquoddy Bay does not communicate for the people of Washington County. They often act like they do speak for the people of Washington County. I evaluate the 80-percent of the populate that voted for the Downeast LNG communicate in Robbinston speak more for the people of Robbinston. Maine," Girdis said. While disappointed with the BEP choose. Girdis said they will move forward. "We believe we undergo a good application and we look send to having the board analyse it."
A young volunteer firefighter ordain be laid to rest in the Oak Bay cemetery Wednesday afternoon following his death in a motor vehicle accident early Sunday morning."It was desire losing one of the brotherhood," said George MacLeod chief of the Oak Bay blast Department. An honor follow of fellow firefighters ordain create at Mehan's Funeral domiciliate in St. Stephen for the 2 p m funeral of James Arthur Jackson son of Clifford E and Louise A. (Stewart) Jackson of Oak Bay. Following the funeral. Jackson's close in ordain be placed on the approve of the Oak Bay Fire Department's newest pumper truck and ordain speak to the cemetery in a procession.
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