What would Maine do if it knew that the Passamaquoddy Bay tides are the highest in the world, capable of supplying nonstop, 24-hour-a-day electric power to the state and New England?

In FDR’s day it was known as the Quoddy Tidal Power Plan. Just think – a non-polluting, self-renewing, inexhaustible lode of power.

Why would anyone want a liquefied natural gas terminal, with all this natural untouched power so close at hand? Who wants to see Passamaquoddy Bay as an LNG terminal?

A clean 240-megawatt tidal power plant has been operating in LaRance, France, since 1966.

However, if some feel the sensitive ecosystems would be disrupted by the intrusion of the original Quoddy plan, there are also several alternatives, utilizing the power of the ocean.

Each day, we read about declining oil supplies and the need for more electric power. Unfortunately, Maine’s natural assets have been ignored far too long.

Maine has the key to an inexhaustible supply of electric power either through tidal or wave energy and other oceanic means.

Augusta and Washington need to shake their political party labels and make a unified thrust in marshaling our rich resource, which is the key to our economic survival.

Ken Buckley

Bangor