Weston Project dam in Skowhegan and Shawmut Project dam in Fairfield. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court, District of Maine. The 26-page lawsuit cites the Endangered Species Act, ...

Francesca Gundrum, advocacy director for Maine Audubon, requested that FERC require at least two fish lifts at each dam, ...

The future of the four dams has been the subject of debate in Maine since Brookfield ... the 15.433-megawatt Hydro-Kennebec dam and the 15.98-megawatt Weston dam for Atlantic salmon, Atlantic ...

The dams – the others are Hydro Kennebec and Lockwood in Waterville and the Weston dam near Skowhegan – effectively block salmon’s access to pristine spawning habitat in western Maine’s ...

a feat that would be historic in nature and that would make Maine the last refuge in the United States for these fish,” Ogden said. The four hydroelectric dams on the Kennebec are the Shawmut Dam, ...

Environment Maine and Friends of Merrymeeting Bay estimate ... or injured trying to pass through turbine blades at the Weston Dam in Skowhegan, the Shawmut Dam in Fairfield, the Lockwood Dam ...

FILE - The Weston Dam holds back the Kennebec River on Sept. 14, 2021, in Skowhegan, Maine. The federal government ruled Monday, March 20, 2023, that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can ...

The dams — the others are Hydro Kennebec and Lockwood in Waterville and the Weston dam near Skowhegan — effectively block salmon's access to pristine spawning habitat in western Maine's Sandy ...

The Shawmut dam spans the Kennebec River, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Fairfield, Maine. The dam, which owned by Brookfield Renewable partners, a Canadian energy company, had been slated to be ...