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Category: Climate Change

A rock cliff and sandy shore on the east side of Sears Island. FILE PHOTO: TOM GROENING

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Offshore wind blows across Searsport

Have you heard there’s another plan to develop Sears Island in Searsport? The state is considering using 100 acres or so on the western shore as a site where enormous floating wind turbines will be built and then deployed to the Gulf of Maine as part of Maine’s renewable energy… SEE MORE
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