PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 26, 2021
The opposition of Maine lobstermen to the New England Aqua Ventus project is misdirected. The disruption to their industry, in the form of cables and transmission lines, pales in comparison to disruption of the marine environment by bottom trawling. When bottom sediments are disturbed, the stored carbon is released. Lobstermen can survive the undersea cables; the entire fishery may well collapse if we don’t get climate change under control. ~ Joe Hardy, Wells