Posted on 03/07/2017 8:04:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
A coalition of commercial fishing groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to challenge the creation of a national monument off the coast of New England.
President Barack Obama created the monument in September using executive authority under the Antiquities Act. The monument is called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, and it is made up of nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains.
The creation of the monument closed the area to most commercial fishing and has been opposed by fishing groups for months. A coalition of the groups filed their lawsuit Tuesday in federal court.
The groups said creation of the monument was a unilateral action by Obama that is bringing economic distress to fishermen and their families. They want it ruled an unlawful use of the Antiquities Act.
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My sister bought land up there to get away from the city, then a bunch of ugly turbines sprung up on her mountain, killing birds and making noise.
To send electricity to CONNECTICUTT!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Fishers?
I think they mean fishermen.
Fishers are a kind of small predator in the Maine woods.
There aren’t any of those damn wind turbine near me, thankfully, but a lot of people who live near them elsewhere in Maine hate them....the noise, the blight on the landscape, etc.
Maine’s # 1 business is the tourism industry, so these windmills could threaten that cash cow.
Not mutually exclusive--often connected.
But specifically, they fear working-class white (Democratic) families because that's what lost them the election, and what those people will do next is a big problem.
Well, if scenery draws tourism, you are probably right about that.
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