Reading the article it sounds like this is mainly targeted at our neighbors to the south than us. It’s only going to affect a small portion of southern Maine fishermen and really just aligns our neighbors with current regulations in Maine. I have no doubt my cousins will still rant and rave about how this is going to destroy their livelihoods but compared to the whale fiasco this seems like a nothing-burger to me.

Been there my whole life. The guy that owns that place just likes Christmas I think.

You’re acting like its easy to get there. The park will attract some more visitors but getting north is a hell of a lot harder than the coastal highways. The majority of visitors will look at the 4-5 hour drive and decide to go to Acadia instead.

Why the fuck can’t people just respect nature?? What the hell is wrong with people like this??

Awww man my guy you did so good on the first one and then resorted to sarcasm for the second comeback. Sorry if we’re exhausting your mental capacity to retort after only a couple exchanges!

And you misconstrue. I am far from noble. I’m just an asshole who only cares about myself and if someone does something that doesn’t affect me I couldn’t give fewer shits. Still I hope you can find peace my friend. Life’s hard when you live so bitterly 🖤

Lol honestly good comeback. Still I think that’s the big difference between people like you and me. If someone told me that I wouldn’t even give it a second thought. What they do with themselves holds zero influence over my own life. I only spend time thinking about things that impact me directly.

I’m sorry you spend so much time thinking about others peoples bodies. Must be exhausting to obsess over everyone’s genitals like that.

They also note on their website that if your roof only has 5 or fewer years in it than you should get it replaced. It sounds like OP purchased this home with the panels previously installed and if the previous owners put them on it was up to them to take that into consideration. It’s unfortunate but at the end of the day I’d blame the previous owner/maybe a home inspector if they had one for the purchase over the installer. They did what they were paid for, nothing more.

If I was you I’d call and ask them to justify that travel cost then. The other costs unfortunately make sense to me when you look at the market for solar installs. You shouldn’t try to price the solar vs the price of the roof but instead other solar installers as the only true similarity they share is they’re on your roof. The materials and skills required otherwise are not comparable and do not actively contribute to the others price. When looked at this way you’re realistically getting an installation for half the going price. It definitely isn’t cheap by any means but is still a deal compared to installing a whole new system once your roof is finished.

Revision specifically notes on their website that if your roof needs to be replaced then there will be a labor fee associated with the removal and reinstallation. $7,500 for what is essentially a first time installation (new roof means entirely new hardware) seems reasonable to me. The $2,500 in travel costs is the most alarming number in my mind. Unless they’re driving up to the county I can’t see justifying that kind of added cost.

This is a great question and should be something our state is focused on! There is a lot of talk around utilizing the current public power movement to partner with UMO and create a new backbone of industry off a diversified energy grid. The developmental capacity needed could supply a huge number of jobs for years to come, especially if models such as the Non-Transmission Alternative in Boothbay Harbor are mimicked. By encouraging this kind of development and fostering a new, mid-income industry, these families who currently make very good money for themselves fishing would see incentives to switch to a safer and more sustainable career.

However, it shouldn’t be ignored that fishing is dying in Maine, whether we like to admit it or not. This is going to continue whether or not stocks decline. The value in our coast has been determined to be in single family housing and retirement communities. If fishing families can’t live in the municipalities they fish out of, let alone within 20 miles of one, they will of course start to look for other options. This has been part of it along with the growth of tourism, our rapidly aging population, etc. We can’t expect our current industries to absorb the impact of lobstermen vanishing though. If we leave it up to natural forces the same thing that happened to the mill workers will happen to lobstermen across our coast. I highly recommend everyone to look up the 10 year plan developed in 2020 that highlights parts of what I pointed out here. Maine is approaching a crossroad that poses major shifts in our society brought on by climate change, it’s up to us now to prepare to take the right path.

Yeah not the whole point really and I wasn’t necessarily saying you were. Many in the current debate have been doing so though and it is disingenuous to the efforts lobstermen have put in over the years to ensure their industry’s sustainability. They are not perfect, we should still be concerned and focus on the issues this article and the 10 year plan discuss, I just wanted to add that point because they really have been getting an unfair dragging through the mud in this current fight.

Maine lobster industry is stable… for now. It’s our neighbors to the south that should be concerned for the immediate future. We won’t be seeing this kind of impact until the middle of the century. The great news is that gives us plenty of time to prepare!

At this point we should be both supporting the lobster industry we have, but also encouraging it’s transition to new industries. Training programs for aquaculture have had a measurable affect in shifting lobstermen away from the field. As well, the 10 year plan put forward a couple years ago highlights a great way to partner with our universities to retrain our workforce and diversify our economy on the backbone of a new fishing and energy-based industrial sector. It would do wonders to both help prepare the hard working men and women who have supported our state for years transition and avoid the insane damage this snow crab die off will have on Alaskan families, as well as alter our energy consumption patterns to be more sustainable as we navigate this ever intensifying climate crisis.

So yes, while this shouldn’t be ignored. We shouldn’t make the lobstermen out to be the villains they are portrayed as being…. Yet.