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The annual IBEW Local 1253 picnic
IT’S TIME FOR THE IBEW LOCAL UNION 1253 ANNUAL PICNIC
YONDER HILL CAMPGROUND
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
GRILLING STARTS AT 11:00AM - ENDS AT 2:30PM
The Picnic will be held rain or shine
Menu includes: Lobster Rolls
Steak Hamburger, Hot Dogs, Corn on the Cob, Chips, Soda
NEW THIS YEAR:
BBQ Chicken
Deep fried
Turkey
Members
are encouraged to bring Salads, Casseroles and Desserts to
share.
Campsites
are available but you must call soon to make your
reservation. Members are
responsible for reserving and payment of their own campsite.
Call
Yonder Hill Campground at 474-7353.
Directions to the campground: Take Route 201 North out of
Skowhegan. You will see a Burger King on the left; proceed
until you see Ware-Butler Lumber on the right. Yonder Hill
is halfway up the hill on the right.
RSVP FOR THE PICNIC BEFORE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
You are
cordially invited to the
Food AND
Medicine/Eastern Maine Labor Council 2008 Labor Day
Solidarity Concert
Monday, September 1st from
4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Local 1253 and Local 567 have a joint venture in advertising
on Citadel Communications
(98.5FM, 92 Moose,1400AM)
Checkered Flag Friday
This radio program will run through September with weekly
drawings for Wiscasset Speedway tickets and
a grand prize of tickets to Loudon NH in Sept
Have
your voice heard, join the IBEW Fights
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A great friend and Brother once commented;
"Paying your dues does not by itself make you a “Union Member.” Attend
meetings, ask questions, get involved … that’s what a true union member does.
New hats will be available September
We have pocket tee shirts in stock
colors are Burgundy, Med. Green, or Med. Blue
cost is $ 14.00
Have a new Code of Excellence Tee Shirts
$ 14.00
We also have Wind breakers with IBEW embroidered on the chest cost
will be $20.00
(black w/silver letters ..........$40.00 value)
Needed ............
Volunteers
Volunteers needed for various projects at the
Eastern Maine Labor Temple
Need electrical work upgrades in
building
Volunteers needed for various projects at the Hall.
This Hall belongs to all members, there is a lot of work to make this Hall our
show piece and we could use help from our Brothers & Sisters. It doesn't cost to
volunteer and the pride knowing you made a difference in your Hall will last
forever. Feel free to stop in anytime and lend a hand, the door is always open!
There is a lot of work going on at the Hall stop in and lend a hand if you have
some spare time.
Looking for sheet rockers and tapers (08/12/08)
Projects
EMMC Cancercare Facility .....Brewer
Work at Hollywood Slots ............Bangor
Work at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel
Work is on going at SAPPI, Bucksport, Madison and Lincoln mills
Commercial work in Augusta, Bangor, Skowhegan, Waterville areas.
Penobscot County Court House...... Bangor
UMO Performing Arts Center...Orono
Sub Station work on going......Orrington, Detroit,Winslow,Farmington
Pipe Line Compressor Station ....Searsmont & Baileyville (Village of
Woodland)
Calais Border Crossing........Calais
Norridgewock trash to energy plant...Norridgewock
Freedom wind farm...Freedom
Other projects on going and bidding in the state
LNG Updates
Quoddy Bay LNG
04/25/08
Quoddy Bay LNG Receives FERC Letter Postponing Action
(April 28, 2008)In a letter dated April 25, 2008, the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) notified
Quoddy Bay LNG that progress on its application is on hold
until further information is received from the company. FERC
says that it will reinitiate the evaluation of the Quoddy
Bay application once Quoddy Bay supplies additional
information to the Commission staff.
Quoddy Bay postpones LNG review
07/16/08
Quoddy Bay LNG, the company that wants to build a
liquefied natural gas terminal on Pleasant Point in
Washington County, yesterday said it would postpone or
temporarily withdraw its application from the state review
process, according to a press release from the company.
The Oklahoma-based company said it would postpone the
review because of potential changes to its plans, including
dropping certian infrastructure investments to save money,
as well as unresolved federal procedural issues, including a
pending lawsuit filed by a group of Passamaquoddy tribal
members that challenges the permit the Bureau of Indian
Affairs granted Quoddy Bay LNG, according to the release.
Quoddy Bay LNG is one of three companies proposing to
build an LNG facility in Washington County. Downeast LNG has
proposed a facility in nearby Robbinston, while a third
group, Calais LNG, has proposed a facility in Calais.
07/28/08
Quoddy Bay
suspends tribal payments
Quoddy Bay LNG, which wants to build a liquefied natural gas
terminal in Washington County on Passamaquoddy tribal land,
says it will temporarily suspend its payments to the tribe
while federal and state permit reviews of its application
are on hold.
Quoddy Bay so far has paid the tribe nearly $800,000 in
quarterly payments of $46,875, according to the
Bangor Daily News.
Quoddy Bay President Donald Smith told the newspaper that
the company is not obliged to make payments to the tribe
until the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has given its
final approval to the project. So far, the bureau has
indicated only that the tribe will allow Quoddy Bay to seek
federal and state permits to build a terminal on tribal
land.
Earlier this month, Quoddy Bay said it
needed more time for the state permitting review process
while it works out details of the proposed terminal and
finalizes the route of the pipeline, the paper reported.
This spring, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
suspended its federal review of Quoddy Bay's proposal
because of inadequate information.
Downeast LNG
Downeast
LNG has temporarily withdraw its application for state permits to build a
liquefied natural gas import terminal and pipeline in Washington County
09/14/07
Downeast LNG
recently tried
to pull its
application from
the state of
Maine when the
United States
Fish and
Wildlife Service
denied their
request to build
a portion of the
31 mile (49.89
km) gas pipeline
through the
Moosehorn
National
Wildlife Refuge.
However, the
Maine Board of
Environmental
Protection has
not allowed the
LNG developer to
withdraw their
application. On
October 25,
2007, the Board
voted to suspend
consideration of
Downeast LNG's
application and
to readdress the
schedule on or
before July 1,
2008. The July
1, 2008 date is
contingent on
whether or not
information
regarding
alternative
pipeline routes
is submitted to
the Board by the
developer.
However, in
February 2008,
the Federal
Energy
Regulatory
Commission
sought public
comment on a new
LNG pipeline
that would
connect the
proposed
Downeast LNG
terminal to an
existing
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If
you have anything to share with our members we will include it
in this area
email;
calvin@ibew1253.org
The IBEW &
NECA have launched a new streaming video called Electric TV.
This is really interesting. It has a lot of news articles
that are relevant to us as trade unionists as well as the
trade in general. Check it out at
http://www.electrictv.net/
Have you
seen the website Hour Power? If not I encourage you to check
this one out as well.
http://www.ibewhourpower.com/
Quarterly Dues
Journeyman Wireman..........
$96.60
Apprentice Wireman
............$81.00
Teledata Tech
.......................$57.60
Teledata
Apprentice..............$43.80
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