Alliance
Petition — delivered to the council June 26
Save the ocean we all share
Industrial dredging permits would turn our public harbor into a private dock — and the seagrass beds beyond it into dead water. The harbor belongs to everyone. Sign to keep it public, clean and alive.
Why we fight
A living harbor, not a loading dock
The eelgrass meadows off Green Harbor are a nursery for cod, a carbon sink, and the reason the water here still runs clear. The proposed dredging would rip them out in a single season — for a terminal the region does not need. We are fishers, swimmers, parents and scientists, and we are taking the harbor's case to the council before the permit vote on June 26.
I'm signingWhat's at stake?
Once an eelgrass meadow is dredged it does not grow back — the sediment keeps shifting and the light never reaches the bottom again. Harbors that lost their meadows lost their fish, their clear water and their swimming bays within a decade. If a majority of the council sees that the town is watching, the permit fails — your name is how they see it.
The council votes in
“My family has fished these meadows for three generations. Dredge them and you are not building a harbor — you are closing one.”