Oppose DOT Container Port Plan: Save Sears Island

Start Date:	Jun 19, 2008		Direct Goal Amount: 1000 signatures Thanks to you, we’re at 99 or 10% →
End Date:	Mar 31, 2010
Goal Amount:	1000
Current Amount:	99
Sponsor:	Fair Play for Sears Island
Tags:	Environment/Conservation Environment/Toxics Government Accountability Sustainability/Future
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Sierra Club: Don't give green cover to DOT port plan

The Maine chapter of Sierra Club is endorsing an agreement about the future of Sears Island -- the largest undeveloped island on the Atlantic coast -- without knowledge or approval of its members. In signing on to a joint-use policy with Maine Department of Transportation, Sierra Club agrees that industrial development on the island is appropriate. The chapter's position has not changed since the release of new information about MDOT's plan to secure permits for port development by means of wetlands-mitigation banking (comparable to carbon-offset trading). This gives developers a way to circumvent Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which regulates destruction of wetlands.

MDOT has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to register all of Maine in a federal Umbrella Mitigation Bank for Transportation (UMBT) -- the first in New England -- an instrument that would undermine all land-preservation efforts in the state.

If this agreement, supported by Sierra Club and other environmental partners, is accepted by the legislature's Transportation Committee, the joint-use policy and the wetlands-mitigation scheme for Sears Island -- and all of Maine -- will become law.

Asked to confirm that members are behind the Joint Use plan, Ken Cline, chair of Maine Sierra Club's conservation committee, promised only to consult Club leaders, not the membership (which he said would be too costly).

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TO: Maine Sierra Club

CC: Governor John Baldacci


In light of new information about Maine DOT's plan to establish a port on Sears Island by means of a strategy designed to circumvent the Clean Water Act,

we the undersigned request that the Maine Sierra Club withdraw its support for the Sears Islands Joint-Use agreement with Maine DOT.

And we request that Governor Baldacci disband the Joint-Use Planning Committee, whose members have been negotiating in bad faith for the environmental community.

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