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EASTPORT – This bay is my bay, this bay is your bay …
That’s the tune many will be singing Saturday afternoon at a rally against the liquefied natural gas facilities that are proposed for Passamaquoddy Bay, according to organizers.
The local activist group Save Passamaquoddy Bay has set a public rally for 1-3 p.m. at Shead High School. Music, poetry and informational briefings will fill the day.
Three development companies are working to bring LNG terminals to the area – Quoddy Bay LLC wants its terminal and tanks in Pleasant Point and Perry; Downeast LNG is aiming for Robbinston; and St. Croix LNG is working with the city of Calais.
The plans have drawn serious opposition in places that are part of the bay’s landscape – Washington County, New Brunswick and on the Passamaquoddy reservation at Pleasant Point.
People attending the rally will hear action updates from Maine by Linda Godfrey, the group’s overall coordinator; from Canada by Arthur MacKay, the New Brunswick coordinator; and from Pleasant Point by Vera Francis, the Passamaquoddy coordinator.
They will talk about the legal and political actions intended to block the proposed LNG developments.
Linda Sisson of Eastport will serve as the rally’s emcee.
“People will find out firsthand about all the work that is going on,” Sisson said Wednesday. “That’s important, because that isn’t always apparent to people, how much thought and action and information-gathering is happening.
“It’s also important for people to realize firsthand that there are a lot of others who feel the same way about this area, and the inappropriateness of bringing in this type of industry. It would destroy so much, and certainly would not deliver all that the developers are promising the people here.”
Save Passamaquoddy Bay held a similar rally in January 2005 that drew about 300 people to Shead High School.
The status of the Whole Bay Study, prepared by an independent research group on the full impact that LNG development would have on the region, will be updated. Save Passamaquoddy Bay supporters are financing that project.
Gracie Davis, a Passamaquoddy tribal elder, will open the rally with drumming and song. Folk singers Ruth Dunfield from St. Andrews, New Brunswick, and Gary Cook from Campobello will perform songs they have written about Passamaquoddy Bay.
The Keltic Schmeltic band, whose members come from eastern Washington County, will lead a singalong for the bay.
Linda Godfrey of Eastport said the goal of the rally is “to inform people about the work under way to prevent LNG.”
“The LNG developers want to create the impression that this is a done deal,” she said. “In fact, through our concerted efforts all around the bay and the continued support from our communities, we will be able to stop LNG from coming here.
“This is a community topic that many people are very passionate about. By coming together in a respectful way, we will give everyone an opportunity to reconnect, be updated and recommit.”
The snow date for the rally is Sunday, March 26.
For more information about the rally, call 853-4123 or visit the group’s Web site at www.savepassamaquoddybay.org.
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