Committee rejects efforts to stymie development of Sears Island wind port

Committee rejects efforts to stymie development of Sears Island wind port

Sears Island in Searsport, the potential home of the new offshore wind port. (AnnMarie Hilton/Maine Morning Star)The Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted down two bills that would have put up roadblocks to the state’s effort to develop an offshore wind port on Sears Island.  Outside of the debate around developing offshore wind, a bipartisan majority of the committee feared the bills would squash the potential for any …