Actions You Can Take as a Citizen
Call your representative, call the governor, speak with your neighbors and get yourself educated.
A Note from the Sierra Club:
Take Action to Stop Wolfden’s Dangerous Mining Proposal
Wolfden Resources is a virtually unknown company that has petitioned the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) to rezone land near Pickett Mountain for metal mining. The company has no actual mining experience, little money, and has not provided accurate or timely information about its plans. You can learn more with this great resource from the Natural Resources Council of Maine.
Please contact the Land Use Planning Commission to reject Wolfden’s application for rezoning. You can make your own voice heard by sending an email to the staff at LUPC stating your opposition to the rezoning at Wolfdenrezoning.LUPC@maine.gov
Tools for Action
https://www.earthdefenderstoolkit.com/toolkit/
We are looking for more help with this process of monitoring, ground-truthing and catching them in the act.
All sorts of things could happen in Cobscook Bay, staying abreast of the threats and opportunities seems like part of being a good citizen of this bay.
GET INVOLVED
Register to vote, get ready to vote in your town.
Inform yourself fully. If you drink water and use metal, learn about it.
Join organizations working on this issue
Call your representatives to tell them you want them to learn about the risk of metal mining in Maine’s wet and increasingly unpredictable climate.
Write letters to the editor( across Maine) with what you have learned and expressing concern about under-regulated mining in Maine
Share information with friends and neighbors, spread the word to people you know about the risks of polymetalic mining.
Contact and share information with community members who fish/eat from the Bay in any way: Clammers, mussel and scallop harvesters, seaweed harvesters, Lobstermen, elver harvesters, alewife harvesters etc.
Contact other affinity groups and natural resource groups to ask them to take a position on mining regulation in Maine and in Washington County. ( ie Nature Conservancy, MCHT, Cobscook Shores, DCC, Moosehorn Wildlife Refuge, Center for Ecological Teaching and Learning, Cobscook Institute, Cobscook Resource Center, Eastport Arts Center, Tides Institute, Downeast Lakes Land Trust.
Makes sure your local schools and librarians get information, so they can share it.
Helping with getting the FREE water tests into the hands of neighbors and those potentially impacted by the mine.
Visit the mine sites to see for yourself and to help monitor the activities close to wetlands and streams.
Get the word out in creative ways, the more people know about and take seriously this risk to our water, the stronger our chances to refuse the offers of the mining company to lease mineral rights.
If you are approached by the mining company and don’t want to sell mineral rights— write to us, we have a limited budget for conservation easements that would prevent mining.
Download this flyer and additional info on water testing using the links below!
FLYERS FOR AT-HOME PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION
Water Testing Flyer (front)
Water Testing Information (back)