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Steve Miller, Islesboro Islands Trust executive director emeritus, is a life-long resident of Maine and has engaged with Penobscot Bay issues for decades.

In 1974, Searsport shopkeeper Jim Verrill said about Sears Island: “Once we add industry to the island, there goes Penobscot Bay. If we let them build this [nuclear power plant],” Verrill continued, “years down the road we’ll ask, `Why did we let this happen? Why did we let them do this?’ and then it’s going to be too late,” according to a 2006 report in the Working Waterfront.

In 2024, Gov. Janet Mills announced plans to develop an offshore wind manuf

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