Top stories in the news this week included the derailment of an oil train north of the border in Quebec, the announcement of a new plan to monitor mosquito born illnesses in the state, the Northeast Kingdom gets an airplane manufacturer, farmers get a lot of heartache, and environmentalists say work to clean up Lake Champlain is long overdue.
These were some of the voices in the news this week:
On The Scene At The Lac Megantic Train Derailment
(Laura Beeston is a freelance reporter with the Montreal Gazette. “You could still see over the treeline a huge, huge flame .You could hear the crackling over the sound of you know concerned citizens just basically watching their downtown burn.”
State Explains Plan To Combat Mosquito-borne Virus
(State Epidemiologist Erica Berl) “For every person who wants us to spray, there’s another one who doesn’t - who didn’t want us to spray last year in response to illness,”
Aircraft Manufacturer Coming To Northeast Kingdom
(Northeast Kingdom by ski resort owner Bill Stenger) “It’s a new idea, it’s a worldwide market and we have a marvelous physical facility here, a beautiful place to recreate but also a wonderful place to learn more about the aviation industry as a pilot,”
Officials Urge Farmers to Document Damage For Disaster Relief
(Don Pouliot, a farmer in Westford) “We’ve got 450 acres of corn. And I would guess 75 percent of it is dead or not going to do anything,"
Floods Worsen Lake Champlain As State, EPA Develop Clean-up Plan
(Anthony Iarrapino is a senior attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation.) “I think every day that goes by that we are not adapting our pollution control programs to the reality of climate change, the increased precipitation, the taxing of our sewage treatment infrastructure by the increased precipitation, increased flooding risks, every day that goes by is a wasted day,”
