Image: A sign urging to protect Sears Island, known to the locally indigenous people as Wahsumkik. Maine is eyeing Sears Island to develop a wind port. Credit: Sasha Ray / BDN
12/31/2024 Printed in the Bangor Daily News
Now that federal funding for offshore wind has collapsed, and the president-elect has pledged to kill further development, it is time for Gov. Janet Mills to consider a visionary new future for Sears Island, as a migratory bird sanctuary, an uncut forest for carbon sequestration, and a zone of human respect and wonder at the raw undeveloped beauty of the Penobscot watershed and the mid-Maine coast.
Instead of headlong environmental destruction, her legacy can be the rescue and preservation of an island revered and beloved by the Maine people, Indigenous and newcomers alike.
Bill Carpenter, Stockton Springs
Alliance for Sears Island 