Nation's largest commercial landowner "stays the course" to environmental destruction.
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"In January, at the conclusion of four day-long public comment sessions and four weeks of a formal intervenor hearing, Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) asked Plum Creek and all intervenors to identify "deficiencies" in the company’s Moosehead development proposal and to suggest “how these deficiencies are resolvable.”
But despite extensive testimony and widespread concerns expressed repeatedly by Maine citizens, scientists, organizations, and state agencies, Seattle-based Plum Creek has filed a 156-page post-hearing brief that does not acknowledge even one deficiency or suggest even one change in its plan.
“We have just witnessed one of the most extensive proceedings ever in Maine, on the largest development proposal in Maine history, with major issues, concerns and evidence put forth by thousands of citizens, experts and organizations, yet Plum Creek, astonishingly, has responded that it sees no need to improve its plan,” said Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director. "
But despite extensive testimony and widespread concerns expressed repeatedly by Maine citizens, scientists, organizations, and state agencies, Seattle-based Plum Creek has filed a 156-page post-hearing brief that does not acknowledge even one deficiency or suggest even one change in its plan.
“We have just witnessed one of the most extensive proceedings ever in Maine, on the largest development proposal in Maine history, with major issues, concerns and evidence put forth by thousands of citizens, experts and organizations, yet Plum Creek, astonishingly, has responded that it sees no need to improve its plan,” said Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director. "
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