This was yet another busy week in Augusta as committees work overtime to complete the work before them. The timing of this session is unprecedented, with nearly 3oo bills yet to be printed and referenced to committees of jurisdiction. Even so, committees have until the end of this month to wrap up their work to […]
Legislative Update – May 5, 2023 Read More »
As we enter the month of May, the pace continues to pick up in Augusta with the traditional two-week public hearing notice now reduced to just two days. This means that as bills continue to be printed and referenced to committees of jurisdiction, there will be very little time for the public to analyze details to
Legislative Update – April 28, 2023 Read More »
While this was a shorter week than normal due to the holiday on Monday, legislative committees have continued to push through the enormous workload that remains. The pace continuously increases as bills are printed and referenced to committees of jurisdiction. With just shy of 1,800 bills printed, roughly 400 remain in draft form, yet the
Legislative Update – April 21, 2023 Read More »
This was yet another busy week in Augusta as committees work their way through an unusually high volume of bills. With roughly 500 bills yet to be printed and assigned to committees and roughly one month left for committees to complete work for the year, the pressure is on. In order to accommodate this work
Legislative Update – April 14, 2023 Read More »
This op-ed was originally published in the Central Maine paper here. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Krysta West is the Deputy Director of the Maine Forest Products Council represents more than 300 members from all sectors of the forest products industry including landowners, foresters, loggers, truckers, paper mills, sawmills, secondary manufactures and more. Nate Cloutier is the Director of
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This week committees quickened the pace, with the standard two-week notice period for public hearings being reduced to a one-week notice period. What this means is that from here on out, we will have less time to mobilize our membership around certain bills of interest, so keep an eye on your inbox for our communications. We will
Legislative Update – April 7, 2023 Read More »
Last week, our industry received some discouraging news – the ND Paper mill in Old Town will shutter until conditions on the ground improve. The company made this decision in order to shift focus on strengthening their Rumford operation at a time when, frankly, conditions are tough. The three reasons cited by the company were:
April 2023 MFPC Newsletter Read More »
This was yet another busy week in Augusta with committees in full swing working through the large volume of bills presented this session. At this point, the Revisor’s Office has drafted language for just over 1,400 of the 2,200 bills. A number of high profile and complex bills are still in the drafting process, yet
Legislative Update – March 31, 2023 Read More »
REWIND 3/30 MFPC Patrick Strauch 1400 Patrick Strauch, Executive Director of the Maine Forest Products Council, joined the George Hale Ric Tyler Show to discuss the recent news out of Old Town.
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Maine, March 6, 2023 —A new study was released today by the Forest Carbon for Commercial Landowners (FCCL) Initiative demonstrating that shifts in forest management in Maine’s commercial timberlands could increase forest carbon sequestration and storage while maintaining current harvest levels. The study further determined that the incentives required to make such changes are relatively
