Maine Lobstermen Face Extinction Threat From Big Wind Corporations, Environmentalists
SWAN’S ISLAND, Maine—For more than 200 years, the Joyce family has weathered storms, the troughs and crests of the economy, and the inherent danger of working on the ocean to draw its living from the sea.
They wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I’ve always been immersed in this,” eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce told The Epoch Times.
But after a lifetime of contending with nature, the lobstermen say they face new adversaries who threaten to end their way of life. Offshore wind corporations, with the backing of the federal government, plan to anchor towering windmills in the waters where they fish….