PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 30, 2021
The lobster industry shouldn’t be worried about a single test turbine, or about the proposed 12-turbine array, which will take up 16 square miles in the 36,000-square-mile Gulf of Maine – all in federal waters. Instead, they should be thinking about the future they want, within the reality we all should acknowledge. They should be thinking about how climate change is changing their industry, and what responsibility they have in being part of the solution. Fishermen should be thinking about how they can work with the wind industry and public officials to coexist in the vast ocean, so that Maine can have its successful and sustainable lobster industry alongside a burgeoning clean-energy business.