Category: News
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Action Alert – Demonstration for Sears Island
The state of Maine wants to build an offshore wind manufacturing facility on Sears Island, breaking its promise to Maine residents to give preference to Mack Point. Join the Alliance for Sears Island and our numerous allies Wednesday, February 21, between 3 and 6 on the Belfast Bridge to show…
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The Ballad of (Battle for) Sears Island
By R.R. Speeding The snow falls gentlyOn the treesThe smell of pineIn the breeze Sometimes to lookJust sit and stareLet the world pass by…I couldn’t care! For all is here(At least to me)Maine:The way life should be! Please don’t destroyThis beautiful placeUse good judgment,Along with grace! For once destroyedIt’s gone…
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Unity College Grad Student Conducts Survey
Taylor Grendell, a Unity College graduate student, came to Friends of Sears Island last fall to see if we could work with her to develop a master’s degree capstone project that would provide useful information, while helping her to earn her degree. We quickly agreed to a project that would…
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Sears Island – The Beating Heart of Penobscot Bay
This past weekend, one of Maine’s foremost environmentalists shared with me a personal statement about climate change, offshore wind and the need for what many call a wind port. “Should it be built at the industrialized Mack Point or at undeveloped Sears Island, both near Searsport on Penobscot Bay,” she…
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Sears Island Ermine
Video by Frank Norwood (aka Downeast Mike Productions) Whether it was the critter’s peaks of curiosity from behind and on top of the driftwood, or maybe those intelligent dark eyes, people were captivated by this iconic symbol of WahsamKik (Sears Island). Frank clearly found himself in the right place at…
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Bangor Daily News Editorial Board Chooses Sears Island for Wind Port
On January 11, just one day after one of the worst storms ever to hit the Maine coast, with another strong wind advisory on tap for January 13—and shortly after 2023 was declared the hottest year on record, the Bangor Daily News editorial board published an opinion piece promoting Sears…
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Alliance for Sears Island: 2023 Review
The Alliance for Sears Island formed this past year out of concern about and frustration with the Maine Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) promotion of Sears Island as the United States’ East Coast offshore wind manufacturing, assembling and launching hub. The Alliance supports the development of an offshore wind facility at…
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