One hundred years from now, our grandchildren will have inherited whatever truly accessible wild wilderness areas that the decisions we make today will have allowed them to have.
Sears Island in Searsport is one such site. It is likely, if decisions made today do not value this undefiled and unique location, that in the near future it will be covered in multiple deep sea ports, noisy industrial machinery and petroleum storage tanks, that store not only petroleum but other “hazmat” substances.
The staging grounds proposed today to assemble offshore wind mills will be long gone after just one overdue hurricane smashes those windmills to smithereens. There is a reason why some of the largest insurance companies in the nation will not provide hurricane insurance to homeowners living along the coast of Maine. They pay educated analysts millions of dollars to do risk assessments for this type of cataclysmic event.
It will be our great-grandchildren who will get stuck holding the bag for our mistakes.
Bonnie Ewald
Brooks
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