Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced Tuesday that she had designated the historic, and undeveloped Sears Island for a 100-acre development on behalf of renewable energy.
[RELATED: Reagan Paul: Sears Island May Be the Next Victim of Maine’s Radical Climate Agenda…]
“I cannot escape the conclusion that the parcel on Sears Island fundamentally makes the most sense and provides us with the best opportunity to responsibly advance offshore wind in Maine, an industry that will create good paying jobs for Maine people and deliver clean, renewable energy to stabilize and reduce energy prices for Maine people and businesses in the long run,” said Gov. Mills.
The project will require the previously pristine Sears Island to become the site of a new port, dedicated to the construction and implementation of Maine’s offshore wind turbine project. In doing so, over a tenth of the island’s roughly 1,000-acre area will be sacrificed at the altar of the climate agenda.
Currently, the state owns 340 acres, while the rest of the island is dedicated conservation land.
However, the impact of the port will not be relegated solely to the designated 100-acres. The project is certain to have an impact on the recreational area on the island as well as the nearby fishing waters.
“Local leaders in Searsport have admitted that if this port is constructed, there will be adverse effects on the local economy and that jobs will be lost,” said Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) in an op-ed for The Maine Wire.
The state had been considering two possible locations, Sears Island and Mack Point.
Unlike Sears Island, Mack Point is already industrialized, but Mills decided on Sears Island because the state already owned the land, and because, according to Mills, the Sears Island development will have a smaller adverse environmental effect.
Mills did not specify when the state will begin the construction project, or whether a development company has been selected to build the port.
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I hope they find a pair of Piping Plovers nesting where they plan the development and have to shut down the plans. Maybe someone should help this happen.
There just has to be some vernal pools or Wabanaki religious landmarks on the proposed site as well as Piping Plover nests mentioned by Andy to stop this insanity. But, of course, none of that matters to the whacko environmentalists who’ve adopted climate change as their pagan religion.
The next nest idea is brilliant? A similar situation happened in Wiscasset concerning rural road reconstruction plans. Drive through route 1 Wiscasset during the summertime and prepare yourselves for The Traffic Gridlock. Though improved, it still is the consternation of many locals. In fact, Down East did an article about it years ago. Wiscasset locals joked that opponents put the eagle nest there — or that DOT operatives built it themselves to avoid footing the substantial bill. Anyway, the rare nest did the trick!
Let the Marxist revolutionaries play with their windmills, solar panels and EVs while the rest of the country readopts the mantra “Drill baby drill”. I’ll love watching them crawl into the fetal position and cry like babies. MAGA!
Centralized planning. It always ends the same way.
We need to.destroy the environment to save the environment.
There are no more protections nor is anything safe from this out of control administration!
Not one windfarm operates without govt (taxpayer) subsidies.
Each wind turbine requires about 2 acres of land each and stands at about 800 ft tall.
Is Mills going to divert the money from funds being used for illegals?
Nothing but “royal edicts” coming from this stupid leftist hack in the Blaine House. Who in the world made her and her apparatchik “Queen for the day?” Her idea to have the UNELECTED BEP force us to use electric cars is just over the top. She would fit right into the Chinese government these days.
Janet, while you’re at it….why not place a few windmills on top of Cadillac Mounain, Mount Katadin, Mount Aggementicus, and Munjoy Hill.
So, follow the money…what’s Janet and her families cut of this boondoggle?
As the saying goes…you get what you voted for. Also, all the liberal/Marxists in Southern Maine are not clamoring to have any of these in their backyard, if they were they would kill it immediately.
Energy transitioning is beyond an obsession. It is counter to the true nature of human ingenuity, Adaptation to change is an ingrained human response, whether it is babe to adult or caveman to the modern era. It is sad we now lack the courage to face the ever ongoing, subtle climate cycle. When during the history of humanity and among the multitudes of ancestral cultures was fear so overwhelming that the demise of human, animal and plant activity was suddenly considered at final countdown? Even when ancient superstitions conjured up weather gods, people overcame bad times without retreating into history. Perhaps, a presidential quote often repeated when Americans find themselves in certain conditions is appropriate ” We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
The future belongs to the brave.
Love how the left has no concern for the environment when it comes to launder money.