The Environment
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In Maine, we have a long history of conservation and protecting our lands and waters. For 10,000 years, the Wabanaki people stewarded our lands, always thinking generations ahead before doing anything. I have lots of ideas on how to continue to protect our state, but here are a few to start:
- Restructure our relationship with Poland Spring Water. They take a billion gallons of our water every year, package it in plastic bottles that aren’t really recyclable, and pay almost nothing for it. Why? So billionaire hedge fund owners can get even richer while our wells go dry. This is unacceptable and needs to stop.
- We have some of the highest electricity bills in the entire country. We need a community owned power company in Maine and we need it now.
- Ticks barely existed in Maine thirty years ago. Now you can’t go into the woods without being covered in them. Lyme and other tick borne diseases are destroying our lives and our politicians barely do anything about it while more Mainers suffer every year.
It’s time to prioritize solutions for tick-borne diseases and finally educate our physicians on how to respond to them long term.
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