Summary
For decades, environmental groups rallied to save Sears Island from industrial development. In recent years, proponents of a port on the island began pushing back, noting the island was purchased by the state in 1998 expressly for future transportation needs. When the liquefied natural gas industry began looking at the 941-acre Penobscot Bay island for a possible terminal facility in late 2003, it seemed another chapter in the 40-year history of debate over the island's fate was about to be written.
Instead, Gov. John Baldacci took LNG off the table, and convened a 40-plus member stakeholder group. That group labored for 18 months on an agreement that puts two-thirds of the island in permanent conservation for low-impact recreation such as hiking and bird- watching, while reserving the remaining third for a possible port; that port would be built only if facilities at nearby Mack Point can no longer be expanded.See the full content of this document
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Saving Sears Island
A bit of political theater recently staged by the Rockland-based Penobscot Bay Watch, in which the group's suppor...
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