From Peter Taber this morning:
Wild Maine Times
Even as Govenor B and the Quislings receive accolades from Downeast Magazine, here is some enlightening and encouraging news. Please check out today's Maine Public Radio interview with transportation specialist Chop Hardenburgh on the economic folly of promoting a container port on Sears Island. He says Searsport's much vaunted rail connection to the Midwest is still longer than from New York. Also that the established East Coast ports -- NY/NJ, Norfolk, Halifax -- are hardly going to be caught flatfooted when more containers start arriving (when that will be is anyone's guess; Halifax is a quarter idle right now), that they are already making plans to expand infrastructure. In other words, conditional on there ever even being an economic recovery that involves fresh torrents of manufactured goods from Asia, it aint coming here!
By the way, check out his concluding remark about how it just doesn't make sense to build a container port on Sears Island, which is what I've been insisting all along.
But remember, that won't stop these idiots from trying. Given their history, they can make an awful mess along the way before more sensible forces take charge.
Peter
http://www.mpbn.net/Portals/0/av/radio/090522hardenbergh.wma
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