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Pembroke residents and Passamaquoddy tribal members have expressed concerns about the project's impacts.

Bucksport Mill LLC sought to surrender ownership of the dams that impound Silver Lake, Toddy Pond and Alamoosook Lake.

The owner of three dams in the Bucksport area wants to give up ownership of the dams.

Federal regulators will hold two public hearings this week on the relicensing for four dams along the Kennebec River.

A coalition of local and national conservation groups is criticizing a new opinion from NOAA fisheries that finds endangered Atlantic salmon aren't jeopardized by four hydropower dams on the Kennebec River.

The four groups say they've obtained data showing the dam's owner remains in violation of the Endangered Species Act

The announcement from Sappi North America came two days after the mid-term election, where the future of the Skowhegan mill itself had been a flashpoint in Maine's gubernatorial race.

Once the project is complete, more than 2,000 acres of lake and pond habitat and 75 miles of rivers and streams will be reopened to migratory fish such as alewives, shad, eels, and endangered Atlantic salmon.

Shawmut is one of four dams that Brookfield Renewable U.S. owns along the Kennebec River. And it has become the latest flashpoint in Maine's decades-long debate over how to restore habitat for Atlantic salmon and other sea-run fish while preserving jobs and tax revenues that rely on the dams.

A thousand square miles of river habitat will open up when the Veazie and Great Works dams on the Penobscot River come down. With the construction of a…