PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • November 16, 2022
Never have I seen beautiful Sears Island so busy as the past two years. Often there were more than 30 cars on a nice summer weekday. Families playing on the beach, workers eating lunch, hunters, tourists hiking, swimming, biking. Yet the state is considering Sears Island for the staging area of the proposed wind farm. Trucks pummeling the causeway, idling as they wait for the train, 100 acres of trees on the island clear cut, soil stripped, concrete poured, industrial structures built. To build up Mack Point and leave Sears Island as it is would be to have our cake and eat it too. Searsport seems to be coming into its own recently with its own unique mini Acadia. Don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg. ~ Paula Carter, Belfast