Plum Creek Greenhouse Gas Assessment
Land use development and global warming are inextricably intertwined, and as pressure to limit GHG emissions increases, Northeast states cannot afford to continue building sprawling, conventional developments that depend on automobile and plane travel--without forethought for their impact on global warming.
Background
In 1998 the Plum Creek Timber Company purchased 900,000 acres of Maine woods from a major paper company in the Moosewood Lake region of northwestern Maine. Six years later, Plum Creek submitted plans for the biggest subdivision in Maine’s history in a region encompassing the largest expanse of undeveloped woodland east of the Mississippi. The Plum Creek development proposal envisions a maximum of 975 residential units, 1050 resort units (a mixture of single-family units, townhouse and apartment style units), 2 resort lodges, 190 employee housing units and 100 affordable housing units built on approximately 20,000 acres.
