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Environmentalists are decrying a year-long process meant to gather public feedback on where to build a deepwater offshore wind port, calling it a “charade.”
Environmentalists are decrying a year-long process meant to gather public feedback on where to build a deepwater offshore wind port, calling it a “charade.” They say state officials failed to adequately engage the public or tribal communities and.
Environmentalists are criticizing a yearlong process meant to gather public feedback on where to build a deepwater offshore wind port, calling it a “charade.” They say Maine officials have failed to adequately engage the public or tribal communities and effectively decided where to build the port long before the process began. The Maine Department of Transportation has been making an internal case for Sears Island while “giving an illusion of an impartial analysis of port possibilities to the public,” said Matt Cannon, the state conservation and energy director for Sierra Club Maine, in comments at the final meeting of the Offshore Wind Port Advisory Group.