We are excited to announce that EOEA is kicking off the search process to hire Commissioners for DCR, MassDEP, DFG and DAR, and a Director of CZM. These five positons will be posted to the Commonwealth Employment Opportunity (CEO) website tomorrow at:
http://ceo.hrd.state.ma.us/
ceo.nsf/ceo_homepage_frm?openform

The application deadline is February 27.

Philip Griffiths
Undersecretary for Environment
Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02114
617 626-1126

February 27, 2007
OMNI/Nitrex Seminar on wastewater treatment for individual and cluster systems that achieves total nitrogen < 5 mg/l

Join your colleagues for a free seminar on the advantages of the OMNI / Nitrex™ wastewater management systems for new or existing facilities.

Learn how OMNI/Nitrex™ systems can routinely achieve Total Nitrogen levels below 5 mg/L in wastewater effluent.

Learn how Nitrex™ technologies are used in Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) applications for groundwater treatment of nitrate.

Learn how to achieve no net nitrogen discharge limits for new and existing projects.

Coonamessett Inn, Falmouth - 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Four Points Sheraton, Hyannis - 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Limited Seating. Reserve Now! To reserve your seat email or call Jean Duff-Still at 508.548.0343

http://www.omnirsf.com/
knowledgebase/omni_nitrex_seminar1.html

To members of the Network of Planning Advisors,

Enclosed is a Status Report outlining what has been accomplished during the first year of the Island Plan process. I’d like to give members of the Network of Planning Advisors a more detailed update on recent activities.

Over 350 people have joined the Island Plan Network of Planning Advisors!!! We are encouraged by this high level of participation by the Island community and are working on the challenging logistics to ensure that everyone’s input is heard throughout the planning process.

Go to the Island Plan section for the rest of the update and Status Report 2006 Year End, pdf.

Also included are the Feb. minutes from the Water Core Group.

Jim Powell Show, Hull Wind turbines
Mon Feb. 19 and 26 at 7:00, Channel 13

Dr. Malcom Brown, one of the founders of the 2 windmills in Hull, Massachusetts will be Mr. Powell's guest . Dr. Brown discusses the practical approach used in getting the town of Hull to produce enough electricity to power 500 of their town's residences! 4 more additional wind towers are going to be constructed soon. This wind power show can be further analyzed by going to Hullwind.org.

Air Force officials are standing behind their initial findings that the proposed 130-turbine Cape Wind project would not interfere with the Air Force's PAVE PAWS radar station in Sagamore.

Supporters of the proposal to build the privately owned wind farm in Nantucket Sound regard this as a victory. Opponents say they will reserve judgment until there is a written report in hand.

http://www.capecodonline.com/
cctimes/airforce13.htm

It’s been a long 10 years since we’ve heard Carl Sagan beckoning us to consider the possibilities inherent in the “billions” of stars peppering the sky and in the “billions” of neuronal connections spiderwebbing our brains.

In the day, the Cornell astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books like “The Dragons of Eden,” “Contact,” “Pale Blue Dot” and “The Demon-Haunted World,” impresario of the PBS program “Cosmos” and Johnny Carson regular was one of the world’s most famous and eloquent unbelievers, an apostle of cosmic wonder, critic of nuclear arms and a champion of science’s duty to probe and question without limit, including the claims of religion. He died of pneumonia after a series of bone marrow transplants in December 1996.

http://www.nytimes.com/
2007/02/13/science/13carl.html
?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Due to high bacteria counts, the state Division of Marine Fisheries closed portions of two large Island ponds to shellfishing this week - one up-Island and the other down-Island.

The closures are effective immediately in part of the Tisbury Great Pond and at Major's Cove in Sengekontacket Pond, although town leaders have not yet received official letters of notification.

http://www.mvgazette.com/
news/2007/02/16/pond_closures.php

Clouds mostly obscured the three-hour flight, but as the plane began its descent, the terrain became more visible. Streams of open water could be seen zigzagging between huge sheets of sea ice.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/498/88888907/