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In 1912, Dexter P. Cooper, a dam designer and builder, when looking at a map of the place where he and his new wife would honeymoon, had an astounding epiphany. The mainland of New Brunswick, Canada, could be linked with several islands and the Maine mainland - via a series of dams. If this could be done, and if the twenty-six-foot high tides of Passamaquoddy Bay could be harnessed - the tides could be used to produce a MILLION MEGAWATTS of power each day! Dexter's dam would become one of the seven wonders of the world! In 1925, Dexter Cooper and his family moved to Campobello Island at the mouth of Passamaquoddy Bay on the US/Canada border - intent on building their massive damworks. Had this project succeeded, the greater Eastport, Maine, area, including Washington and Charlotte Counties, would have been tremendously different than they are today. Eastport, the epicenter of Dexter's dam plan would have become a major shipping port on the East Coast of the United States. A true gem on the Eastern Seaboard. Dexter, and his wife, Gertie, tried for almost five years to obtain the regulatory approvals needed to build this dam - and were set to overcome the last hurdle when something extraordinary happened. One government body rejected their bid. And that rejection killed Dexter's dream dam - at least in the near term.What were the politics on both the Canadian and United States sides of the border leading to the failure to build the International Dam? How did the people of the time react to the potential destruction of the bay's habitat and the loss of their nature-dependent jobs? And what's going to happen to the bay now that climate change is creeping its way up the Maine coast? These are but a few of the questions considered in this book. Book 1 of this series, The Dam Builders, is the prelude to Dexter's attempts to build his tidal power dams along Passamaquoddy Bay on the US/Canadian border. It describes who Dexter Cooper was - and what life was like for the dam engineer in the 1910s and 20s. This book, Book 2, The International Dam examines Dexter's first attempt to build his dream dam - his International Dam. Book 3, The All-American Dam, describes Dexter's next attempt to build his dream dam. And Book 4, The Quoddy Dams tells the final chapter in the story of the Passamaquoddy Bay Tidal Project.