The state of Maine’s plan to develop Sears Island into a logistical hub for future floating offshore wind facilities faces the same legal constraints that thwarted a state effort in the 1990s to transform one of the largest undeveloped islands remaining on the Eastern Seaboard into a marine terminal, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
In fact, a 1996 federal consent decree won by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against the Maine Department of Transportation for illegally destroying wetlands on Sears Island outlines the same environmental violations the state seems determined to commit again, according to a PEER press release April 1.
