PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 26, 2023
Offshore wind is a desirable, green source of power needed to replace fossil fuel. But it makes no sense to even consider Sears Island as a place to develop. The port would require clear-cutting forest and removing yards of soil to build a long peninsula into the bay for loading barges. Dumping all that soil would destroy the marine nurseries, not to mention unhinge the balanced ecosystem. Mack Point is superior for a wind assembly port. It would turn a brown space into a green energy port. A win-win. ~ Cloe Chunn, Waldo