AUGUSTA(AP) — Gov. Paul LePage has appointed a St. Croix River mill manager to an international commission that protects the river’s corridor on the U.S.-Canadian border.
LePage, a Republican, in August appointed Scott Beal, Woodland Pulp spokesman and environmental and security manager, to the St. Croix International Waterway Commission. Maine’s governor and New Brunswick’s premier can each appoint four commissioners to the commission, which restores and manages natural habitats on the St. Croix River corridor.
Paul Bisulca, a member of Schoodic Riverkeepers, a Passamaquoddy tribal organization, said he’s concerned that it’d be a conflict of interest for a pulp and tissue mill employee to sit on such a commission.
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