by Carol Williams
Bar Harbor Times, September 16, 2004

Bar Harbor- The Bar Harbor Conservation Commission started a study on Monday night that members hope will ultimately lead to a council resolution governing the fast-growing industry locally.

The commission's goals, according to member Greg Veilleux, are to learn about the effects of cruise ships on the local environment, community, commercial fishing, and economy. But after hearing from Jane Disney, Executive Director of the MDI Water Quality Coalition, that cruise ship discharges were not polluting Bar Harbor's waters, much of the discussion focused on the local economy.

by Trina Travers

MDI High School seniors Bik Wheeler and Randy Walls are testing the water around cruise ships coming to Bar Harbor this spring and summer as part of an ongoing project by the MDI Water Quality Coalition. As interns with the program this semester, the two are monitoring changes in water quality related to the presence of the ships in Frenchman Bay.

Bar Harbor Times, Sept. 30, 2004
by Carol Williams
Bar Harbor - Around the $800-million-dollar queen for the day, Coast Guard boats guarded the 300-yard security line. Small boats cruised, passengers craning to take in QM2's 236-foot, 23-story reach.

One boat, though- the harbormaster's - was close enough for hands on board to touch Queen Mary's black and red flank. But they reached not for boasting rights but phytoplankton; and their eyes, and arms, were to the water, filling up baggies to test whether the Queen Mary 2 was polluting Bar Harbor.

Augusta- The Eleventh Annual Maine Water Conference, a forum for water resource professionals, researchers, consultants, citizens, students, regulators and planners to exchange information on water resource issues in Maine, took place on March 22, 2005 at the Augusta Civic Center. Tifin Calcagni and Zack Steele of the Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition were there to present the poster "Not All Cruise Ships Are The Same- The 2004 Cruise Ship Season Report for Bar Harbor, ME".