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        Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE) is a group dedicated to addressing environmental issues through education, advocacy, and community organizing. Our goal is to assure that Salem is a healthy and prosperous place in which to live. To learn more about us, please explore this website.  We are planning monthly informational meetings and hope you will watch this page for announcements. 


        Also watch for upcoming events from Salem Sound Coastwatch, a Salem non-profit coastal watershed organization that is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the environmental quality of the Salem Sound Watershed. And keep an eye on North Shore Wind, which aims to collect, share and disseminate information regarding offshore wind for the seaside communities north of Boston.

 
24 July 2011
Opinion page in the Salem News, July 18, 2011
"Island upgrade next step for Salem port plan"

"A recent focus of efforts to improve the city's historic waterfront has been Winter Island, the much-used but still rather forlorn-looking peninsula at the entrance to Salem Harbor.

"Following months of study and discussion, Boston-based planner Steven G. Cecil rolled out his firm's vision for the property at a meeting of The Salem Partnership on Friday.

"The plan is conservative in some respects, emphasizing recreation over the commercialization of the site, but ambitious in others, such as suggesting the construction of a wind turbine at the southwest corner of the property (facing the power plant) that might help fund needed improvements that, if fully implemented, could cost up to $10 million...."


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