PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 15, 2024
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills has reaffirmed its support of Sears Island as the preferred site for Maine’s wind port, saying it will cost nearly $100 million less to build there than at the next-best location. The state Department of Transportation recently released a draft report that explains why it considers Sears Island the best of 23 possible locations for the wind port. An opponent of the Sears Island site and a member of an advisory offshore wind group said he and at least one other group member were not alerted to the report and called it a “failure of process.”