Use of mediation to resolve the dispute over low-head hydroelectric development at Swan Lake

• Main Author: O'Connor, D.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 13 HYDRO ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; LEGAL ASPECTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; ADVERSARIES; DECISION MAKING; INTERVENORS; MAINE; PLANNING; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; POWER PLANTS; USA; Low Head; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6722138; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6722138; https://doi.org/10.2172/6722138

In 1978, the Maine Hydroelectric Development Corporation announced that the company planned to renovate five dams on the Goose River near Belfast, Maine to generate electricity. The most important part of the plan involved the use of the first of the dams, at the lower end of Swan Lake, to regulate...