The Penobscot River is being polluted by the state owned, privately run Juniper Ridge Landfill. Landfill leachate is a waste by product created when rainwater filters down through layers of solid waste in a landfill, collecting a toxic cocktail of chemicals along the...
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Penobscot River Rights Case Summary
This video summarizes the most recent attempt by the state of Maine to formally put an end to the subsistence rights of the Penobscot Nation within the Penobscot River. To learn more and watch the full length documentary, visit SunlightMediaCollective.org.
Penobscot – A Fight for Ancestral Waters
This short film highlights the alarming territorial theft attempt faced today by the Penobscot Indian Nation. In December of 2015, a U.S. District Court Judge decided on the highly controversial and historic case, Penobscot Nation v Janet Mills, Attorney General for...
Juniper Ridge Landfill Megadump
The Maine Board Of Environmental Protection (BEP) is currently considering changes to Maine's waste policy that would change the definition of Maine generated waste in order to control the disposal of out-of-state waste in Maine’s publicly-owned landfills, and require...
ND Paper Discharge
Each year over 200,000 tons of out-of-state waste is disposed of at Juniper Ridge Landfill, a publicly owned, privately run landfill in Maine. The waste used to construct it is toxic enough to have been banned from disposal in all 5 other Northeastern states. An...
THE PENOBSCOT – Ancestral River – Contested Territory
THE PENOBSCOT: Ancestral River, Contested Territory traverses the landscape of deal-making and deal-breaking that has largely defined tribal-state relations in Maine. From the 1700's to the present-day, the film emphasizes the Penobscot people’s centuries-long...