BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 15, 2023
Sears Island is a potential site for a proposed off-shore wind farm. While renewable energy resources are important for Maine, significant industrial development will be necessary to establish the port. Why not place the port across the bay at Mack Point? It is already developed. Will we really pave paradise to put up a parking lot, among other things? Isn’t it ironic that our plans for “green” energy could involve industrializing and contaminating one of Maine’s greenest pristine islands? Isn’t the point of renewable energy to take care of our natural resources? ~ Trish Hutchins, Swanville