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This week’s bipartisan decision on LD 2266 against changing environmental laws prior to a true alternative analysis allows for the offshore wind port effort to move toward development on Mack Point in Searsport. The Mack Point location has a shuttered fossil fuel tank area. It already serves as a port and can be developed to provide the same number of jobs building offshore wind platforms.
It would comply with the 2009 consensus agreement hammered out by the Joint Use Planning Commission. Optically, removing fossil fuel tanks to provide for a renewable energy staging port while preserving a uniquely beneficial environmental resource on Sears Island, right next door, can be the best possible outcome.
Siting renewable energy must go hand in hand with preserving natural resources as we address our changing environment. It gives one hope that this bipartisan group of legislators were able to listen to each other to make a considered vote.
Becky Bartovics
North Haven