Well it’s literally the last Atlantic Salmon run in the entire country.

It’s an extremely nuanced problem. We could remove the dam, but the damage upstream has already been done. It’s unclear to me at least if removing it would cause water level issues between east mill and Milford. Or a myriad of other things Plus you’d need to replace the power with something else. It would probably be oil or nat gas. Warming will fuck the salmon anyways through the warming gulf.

The dam is only 8MW, so it would take a handful of wind turbines to produce the same wattage. However the life of wind turbines is much shorter than a dam, and it remains to be seen what developers will do when the turbines reach the end of their life. They may just abandon them.

It comes back to it’s probably best to just leave the dam where it is, and figure out how to let the fish pass through.

I thought the state did something in Milford/Old Town a few years ago (maybe a decade at this point) to help the fish get upstream of the Milford dam?

Some of those dams the state doesn’t want fish passage through to protect fish downstream. For example the Brassau dam. Above it there are smallmouth bass. Downstream in the moose river and Moosehead you have a good landlocked salmon fishery.

That one is also a Brookfield dam

Yup. They own several dams on the Kennebec as well, and refuse to allow adequate fish passage.

Oh well. What's it matter?

Oh well

Didn’t read the article but that’s no surprise

I saved about 20k by doing this. Very based and community college-pilled

Brookfield is literally a cartoon villain.

Damn bears eating all the salmons and now this asshole ?

Alternatively I had the intelligence to basically sneak into UMaine but lacked the academic work ethic to keep up. Ended up wishing I stayed at community college. I still have to pay for the degree I don't have.

THIS.

Agreed. Old timers knew this dam was going to be an issue as the Penobscot restoration project got underway.

Environmental groups and a Native American tribe accused the operator of a Maine dam on Monday of not fulfilling its obligation to protect the country’s last remaining Atlantic salmon river run.

The last wild Atlantic salmon live in a group of rivers in Maine and have been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 2000. The Penobscot River, a 109-mile (175-kilometer) river in the eastern part of the state is one of the most important habitats for the fish.

The Penobscot is also the site of the Milford Dam, which is owned by renewable energy giant Brookfield Renewable. The company is required under the Endangered Species Act to maintain fish passages that allow 95% of adult salmon to pass the dam within 48 hours.

According to the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Atlantic Salmon Federation and Penobscot Indian Nation, documents obtained using the Maine Freedom of Access Act show that Brookfield isn’t living up to that obligation and that data compiled by the Maine Department of Marine Resources last fall show that only about 21% of salmon pass the dam in the required timeframe.

The groups contend that the problems at the dam are longstanding and that the data illustrate that Brookfield isn’t doing enough to fix them.

“We need to see some action here because this problem has been festering for too long,” said Nick Bennett, a staff scientist with the Natural Resources Council of Maine.

A Brookfield representative declined to comment on the group’s statements.

Brookfield’s stewardship of Maine salmon has long been a point of contention with environmental groups. The company has touted its efforts to improve passage on the Penobscot and Kennebec rivers.

Salmon were once plentiful in U.S. rivers, but populations were hurt by overfishing, and factors such as dams and pollution have made restoring them difficult. The species is widely used as seafood because it is widely grown in aquaculture farms.

Salmon counters found more than 1,300 of the wild fish on the Penobscot River last year. Numbers ebb and flow from year to year, with a recent low of 503 in 2016 but more than 1,400 in 2020.

The environmental groups shared the documents they obtained with The Associated Press. The documents include an email from Dan Kircheis, a salmon recovery coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in which Kircheis states that Brookfield is “not meeting the delay standard for Atlantic salmon.”

Kircheis declined to comment. Officials with the Maine Department of Marine Resources also declined to comment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230306234548/https://apnews.com/article/salmon-migration-dam-removal-maine-f2b637274617c783e885e39c5bcf398f

Not enough

I hope you take the advice to go to SMCC. Going to community college for the first two years is one of the best decisions I ever made. I'm almost 30 and have zero regrets about it.

UMaine won’t reconsider your application unless you have a “compelling” reason for admission, i.e. better grades. I highly recommend applying to a community college and getting your gen-eds out of the way there and then applying for UMaine after you have established your grades and academic choices with the community college. You’ll save some money, too!

Source: I work with UMaine admissions and have heard the admissions counselors talk a lot about the applications process and what it takes for rejected applicants to be admitted.

Don't be afraid to contact admissions and ask. They should be able to tell you what you can do.

SMCC is better than USM and 10x cheaper, at least that was my experience (engineering). Wish I could have done all 4 years there.

He doesn't get four million. See above.

>Even if you feel like you can do something, DON’T

In case anyone is reading this and scoffs like, fuck it, I can go for a run.... I got covid this time last year and it was basically nothing more than a 48 hour fever. I ended up shooting myself in the foot though because on a relatively cold morning about 72 hours in I felt better, so I went for what I planned to be a 3 mile jog. Got like 1 mile in and had to walk home because all of a sudden my lungs were absolutely filled with mucus. Like every breath I could cough out a little more. And it lasted all day even after I warmed up. It's was pretty interesting. I'd suggest taking the full 5 days off after symptoms in case the sinus thing lingers and if you do physical activity make sure it ain't below freezing

I did take that weekend with covid to do my taxes, so don't let anyone tell ya you can't do something you set your mind to!

Unless their first decision was some sort of error, not very likely. I am going to echo everyone else and mention taking advantage of free community college, given you’re a recent highschool grad.

It's a symptom of the internet, we don't talk to each other like people and when confronted even in the gentlest of ways with an opposing viewpoint or correction to a false claim it goes directly to insults and doubling down on the original claim almost 100% of the time. Where is the shame in saying"okay, I didn't know that, my bad"?

I bet he deletes the comments eventually, seems like they at least realize they are wrong now.

I also recommend looking at tech schools as well, learning a trade won’t stop you from going back to college, but it can train you in a marketable skill to bridge the gap between post-high school and figuring out what you really want to do.

Lol. They just can’t admit they’re wrong!