Who exactly wants the new LNG terminal besides Gov. Baldaci and a few rich CEOs. Washington County will accept anything that pays a few bucks. It is being studied as an area with one of the highest cancer rates in the U.S. ...for that reason.

Everyone in Washington County wants LNG - in addition to Baldy and a few rich CEO's. A lot of other people who do not live in Washington County would like to see it go through as well- minus the hard core environmentalists. An LNG facility isn't going to make or break the Washington County plight, but it will help put a band-aid on the dead pulp and paper industry. I don't think that there is anything worthwhile that can be done for Washington County at this point. Many a good idea have failed. With the manufacturing economy a thing of the past, and environuts handcuffing the lobstering industry, I would move my family out as soon as possible. Unfortunately thousands of them are 3rd, 4th, or 5th generation mill workers or lobstermen and have 0 skills for a technology based economy. It will be interesting to see what Calais and Machias look like in 15 years- LNG or not.

Martha - do you suppose it is the vast amounts of granite in Washington County and the radon it produces could be one of the reasons the cancer rate is so high? We have known about this link for years.

Martha, if you are so worried , then all you have to do is move to a safer place, I am sure you will not be missed.

We might just as well let canada have the LNG's the Nuke plants . That what Baldy wants, then we can buy ours power from them. That way canada can control the state. Lot of our pulp mills are own by canada, you can see whats happening their, has anyone heard of mills shutting down in canada? I think Baldy is getting way to friendly with canada and Irving.

MOST OF THE SAVE THE PASSAMAQUODDY BAY PEOPLE ARE RICH AND OF COURSE THEY DO WANT ANYTHING COMING TO ANY WASHINGTON COUNTY TOWNS, THEY ARE ALL SET IN LIFE WHILE THE REST OF US HAVE TO SUFFER WITH NOTHING, HIGH TIME SAVE THE PASSAMAQUODDY BAY PEOPLE MOVE OUT OF TOWN, THESE TOWNS ARE TOO POOR FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESSES, LIKE THE BUSINESSES YOU HAVE IN EASTPORT, NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO SHOP IN THOSE STORES, COME ON CLOSE YOUR STORES AND GET THE HECK OUT OF TOWN....AND AS FOR DOWNEAST LNG GO FOR IT I HOPE IT ALL WORKS OUT FOR YOU, TIMES ARE REALLY HARD AND WE NEED ALL THE JOBS WE CAN GET...GOOD LUCK

AS FOR OUR CANANDIAN NEIGHBORS, YOU ALL HAVE MORE LNG FACILITIES THAN I THINK THE US DOES, BUT MAYBE NOT, BUT I KNOW THEY ARE CLOSE TO CALAIS NOW. STOP YOUR OWN LNG TERMINALS AND LEAVE THE US ALONE

Oil is a thing of the past. It is a limited resource. People who care about the future of Washington County need to be planning for the future instead of getting stuck in the past. You need to be thinking about renewable resources.

What we need to do is Tax the SAVE THE PASSAMAQUODDY BAY PEOPLE to the full extent of the law if they think their product is worth what they sell it for then they should be taxed for what they say it is worth

If in my wildest dreams, all three LNG plants are built. It will only provide about 150 full time jobs with benefits. Better than nothing, and might be a lure to some small manufacturing companies that might be lured by the availability of LNG.

We in Washington County are on the fast track to oblivion. The loss of the paper mill is removing 300 high paying jobs at the mill, along with another 85 jobs in Eastport, not to mention all the truckers on both sides of the border that relied on the mill being in operation and the wood lot owners that will have a harder time marketing their wood.

Every year the graduating classes from the local high schools gets smaller. Most of the graduates have to leave Washington County in order to make a living. Of those that remain, an alarming number turn to drugs.

For those people opposed to the building of LNG plants I have a question. What is your plan to save the people of Washington County? Tourism? That would be 2 months of the year, no benefits and minimum wage. How do you propose those that do that live for the other 10 months?

Don't you get it yet most of the people opposed are originally from another State and want us useless 3rd,4th, and 5th Mill workers and Lobstermen to move to hell out so, they can take over land that in some cases have been in families for a couple hundred years, put up a beautiful shore front home and have a unoccupied forest to the north of them all the way to northern tip of Maine.

Maybe they would put up a Heritage Museum in Eastport to show how us stupid Mill workers and Lobster men survived here during that time.

Guess they forgot about the stupid Lumber men and truck drivers, but I guess they don't even qualify for a mention.

Well guess what FLATLANDERS my family on my mothers side was here in the county to tell the British to go to hell in 1776 and my fathers family was here during the occupation of 1812 and my family will be here after you are gone.

If you don't like us here in Washington County move back to where you came from, I for one never asked you to come up here to save us, we see what a great job you have done with your own home Counties and States!

Sorry forgot generation after "5th" but what do you expect from a non-technical Mill Worker. Good thing it doesn't take technology to operate the mill or Navigate on the ocean.

So Bob GODfrey has all the answers on LNG? I wish Bob would move to Canada where he belongs. We need these jobs and taxbase in Calais and Robinston now. Heck Bob GODfrey probabley likes the idea of the mill closing as well. Baldacci should , instead of supporting the importation of energy from Canada, be telling Canada that we will be recieving LNG through head harbor passage and thats that. Just think of all the jobs LNG power plants could bring to the area. I cant believe Baldacci is supporting Canada's energy corridor, he allready screwed washington county on the cassino idea. Did Canada care about our safety when they built the nuke plant ? Its about time our elected officials start looking out for thier constituants. We need LNG now people. Maybe we should close the valve on the LNG pipeline in Baileyville, until Canada comes around to our way of thinking. I did'nt hear Canada whining about the pipeline when they built it, ohh thats right they sell thier LNG to the US through it. One other option to get LNG to the US would be to remove the bridge from Lubec to Campobello Island and dredge that area now theres an idea I really like, problem solved !!!!

Good ol' Bob....can't seem to keep his mouth shut. I would like to ask him what grandiose ideas he has for this area. Well Bob? He seems adamantly opposed to the LNG and will go down fighting tooth and nail until the LNG facilities are built or are not built here. Then what will dear ol' Bob do? Perhaps him and his wife Linda will leave because they certaintly wouldn't want to live in Easport is there was an LNG facility in Robbinston. Do they ever wonder about the plant in St John, NB - what if there is a explosion there...I think that dear ol' Bob might be nervous about that one. Or Point Lepreau - across the bay from Eastport. We need industry in the are and from that whether it be LNG, Wind Turbine projects - jobs will come. Tourism isn't the end all cure all for WA CO.

Ever notice that those who just love anything that will harm the environment and make money for a few try to threaten and minimize. Losers.

Ever notice that those who can't stand the sight people making a decent living will kill any chance of those people getting ahead? Who will pickup your trash for you when there are no poor people left to dengrate in Washington county? You can't ecpect those on welfare to do it for you, or those clients from the Methadone clinic. Wake up and look at each graduating class from the high schools. See how many have to leave in order to make a living. Or is that your plan for a healthy environment. Enjoy your rides to Bangor to do your shopping.

Trash collectors make pretty good money. That's why they do it.

Why isn''t it clear to most by now that fossil fuels are not the answer for jobs or for energy; never have been and never will be. The use of fossil fuels to industrialize the world is one of humanities biggest boondogles. All it has created is supreme wealth for a few; past, current, and future wars; poison and death for the innocent; and the near if not irreversible destruction of the earths atmosphere. Washington County is a pristine, treasured, and natural resource. We must harness through wind, water, and sun the wealth and health that these natural resources can provide and that we happen to possess in abundance. LNG's are being rejected all over the world for more than just the couple of obvious reasons I have stated here. It has become clear planet wide that natural, clean, sustainable, and safe sources of energy are the only alternative. Of course the big oil barons and their ilk don't like that answer. They would prefer to continue to build their empires however and whereever they can. Let us not consider allowing them to do so here at the detriment of our most precious gifts: our people, our water, and our land. Let us implement solar, tidal, and wind resources to fuel our consumption of energy and at the same time our economy.

Seems fossil fuels have run this country of over 100 years.Maybe if we had trilliions of Kites with keys hanging off them we might have had plenty of electricity do you think tomthompson_1.

If it was not for subsudies, wind power actually never recovers the actual cost of construction, etc... And the only areas in Maine that can provide addiquate wind is offshore, and even then there is question as to the ability of the grid to take on this power. Tidal is consistant, but you will get as much pushback on that as the LNG folks are, as setting up tidal dams restricts both fish and boaters from having access to areas they have had, and thus you are opening up a whole other can of worms. That being said, I think tidal would be the best situation, but don't see it happening. And solar.. Have you looked out your window today... or yesterday... or the day before! We don't have sufficient sun. LNG is only a bandaid to get us from now until the point we do have the alternatives. So for the next 15 years or so, we still are using an abundence of fossil fuels, like it or not.

Oil is a thing of the past. Plan your future with renewable energy.