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If regulators approve the project, it will be sited 45 miles southeast of Portland, and could produce power by the end of the decade.
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For decades, Sears Island in northern Penobscot Bay has been caught between development proposals and the environmentalists who want to conserve it. But the most recent conflict is a bit trickier — as it involves a green-energy project.
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The chairman of the Legislature's energy committee is proposing a bill that aims to jumpstart the offshore wind industry in Maine.
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This month, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is holding public meetings in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. The Maine meeting will be at the Portland by the Bay Holiday Inn, on Jan. 19 at 5 p.m.
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Environmentalists are criticizing a decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management not to conduct a comprehensive environmental review before designating areas for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.
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Crews have begun cutting trees and clearing a path on Sears Island for geotechnical drilling and testing. The island is one of two possible sites near the midcoast town of Searsport that could become a major offshore wind development hub for Maine.
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A task force of officials from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and tribal governments considered the next phase in the push to stand up a new "green" industry off the shores of Northern New England.
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A wide coalition of New England conservation groups is calling on federal regulators for a rigorous review of the potential effects of offshore wind-farms on Gulf of Maine ecosystems and fisheries.
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Rep. Chellie Pingree and other New England lawmakers are pressuring federal ocean regulators charged with siting offshore wind energy projects to pay close attention to the health of Gulf of Maine ecosystems and fishermen.
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In this week’s newsletter: Gov. Mills rips GOP as it intensifies vaccine mandate critique; Pingree joins bid to expand SCOTUS; Biden eyes Gulf of Maine for offshore wind development.