BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 5, 2022
Mack Point is the better site to develop an offshore wind terminal. Unfortunately Maine DOT is focusing instead on Sears Island. Mack Point and Sears Island share a harbor. Mack Point’s industrial site provides shuttered oil tanks, a rail spur, and infrastructure in place. Offering no benefit to terrestrial or aquatic environment, it is not on the migratory pathway, has no amphibians and has no wetlands to capture carbon. What better place to site new technology replacing a dirty, outmoded, 20th century dinosaur. Sears Island is a perfect showpiece for the Climate Council’s initiative to provide carbon sequestering resources. Choose Mack Point over Sears Island. ~ Becky Layton Bartovics, North Haven