Category: Library
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Is 2026 the Year of Wahsumkik?

Every end-of-the-year-2025 Maine news summary I’ve read says something about offshore wind…But all the numerous 2025 news summaries I’ve seen fail to mention the surge of interest in permanent protection of Sears Island that began years ago but grew in scope, number and conviction during the past year.
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FAIR PLAY FOR SEARS ISLAND’S VISION
Sears Island Planning Initiative Steering Committee Meeting Hutchinson Center, Belfast July 12, 2006
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Preservation and Port: A Recipe for Prosperity
a permanent vision for Sears Island and Mack Point Proposed to the Sears Island Planning Initiative Steering Committee September, 2006
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MDOT Plans New Sears Island Road and Rail Access Corridor Through Current Conservation Land

5/23/2024 Though Current Conservation Land Can we hold the Maine Department of Transportation accountable for bull-dozing their way toward developing Sears Island and industrializing Penobscot Bay, along the way breaking promises, rewriting environmental protection law, changing the Sears Island conservation easement, withholding from the public important development costs and impacts and…
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Sprague Energy Mack Point Offshore Wind Plan

The Bangor Daily News published an excellent op-ed by Sprague Energy’s Jim Therriault on May 14 (https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/05/14/opinion/opinion-contributor/sprague-energy-mack-point-wind-port-plan/) that lays out the numerous reasons why building the state’s offshore wind manufacturing, assembling and launching facility there is the best alternative if it is built in Penobscot Bay. For more information, visit https://www.spragueenergy.com/mack-point.…

