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

• Main Author: O'Connor, D.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: New England Environmental Mediation Project, Boston, MA (USA) 1980
• Subjects: Hydroelectric Power Plants; Institutional Factors; Usa 130400* > Hydro Energy > Legislation & Regulations; Adversaries; Socio-Economic Factors; Environmental Impacts; 130600 > Hydro Energy > Environmental Aspects; Planning; 29 Energy Planning; Policy And Economy; North Atlantic Region; Legal Aspects; North America; Power Plants; Decision Making; 293000 > Energy Planning & Policy > Policy; Legislation; & Regulation; 13 Hydro Energy; Maine; Intervenors; Low Head; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6722138; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1186086/

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...