Category: News
-
PROTECT SEARS ISLAND
Photos and text by James McCarthy, Brunswick Maine On Memorial Day my poet friend Gary Lawless and I went on a seven-mile walkabout on Sears Island. A chestnut-sided warbler greeted us soon after our arrival. Its song is sometimes described as a short ditty: “Pleased, pleased, pleased to meetcha!” Even though…
-
Significant Vernal Pool Habitat is protected by law under the Natural Resources Protection Act (NRPA)
This past spring, two people went looking for spotted salamanders, wood frogs and egg masses on Sears Island as they and others have been doing for years. This year, of course, recording the presence of these species in vernal pools located where the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) wants to…
-
Letters to Government Officials
Examples from Two Alliance Governing Team Members Becky Bartovics wrote to the US Secretary of Transportation, Peter Buttigieg, urging him to deny a Maine Department of Transportation application for $456,000,000 toward building an offshore wind manufacturing facility on Sears Island and Janet Williams submitted testimony in response to the Governor’s…
-
Open Letter to Federal Department of Transportation – Do Not Fund Development of Sears Island
The Honorable Peter Buttigieg Secretary of Transportation United States Department of Transportation1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, D.C. 20590 Dear Secretary Buttigieg, I am writing to you because you have the ultimate responsibility for the Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Program in the USDOT and I am asking you to intervene in a recent…
-
Climate Change And Connecting With Nature
It’s not too late to change the course of the Sears Island offshore wind development debate. Understanding how humans fit into the grand scheme of life on planet earth, we can protect Sears Island and further offshore wind development at Mack Point. Early in May, Derek Dunbar told Friends of…
-
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…
-
Is the Offshore Wind Facility Mainly an Economic Development Plan or a Response to Climate Change?
About 60 people attended the Searsport Workforce Development Event, sponsored by the Maine Labor Climate Council, at the Searsport Community Center Tuesday, May 14, from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. Several Protect Sears Island supporters were seated among the crowd. Moderated by Scott Cuddy of Maine Labor Climate Council, the panel…
Alliance for Sears Island 