March 27, 2025
This is a summary presentation based on available research and data analysis that supports the climate change and marine ecosystem warnings by Hans Neu and others starting over 50 years ago regarding the development of hydroelectric power dams in the subarctic and Arctic regions. The presentation outlines how these hydraulic structures and their flow regulation have upset the delicate balance that maintains the sea ice and Arctic Ocean generated coastal and thermohaline currents as well as the weather patterns that they control. The goal of this presentation is to initiate discussion and acknowledgment of the cumulative effects which will be enumerated in this presentation and how they are affecting not only the Arctic climate and our own Gulf of Maine fishery.
Presenters:
Halsey W. Snow, Ph.D.Sierra Club, Maine Grid Works
Roger Wheeler, President, Friends of Sebago Lake
Clifford Krolick, NECAPA, Back Country Excursions