Sears Island - Latest port wannabees make their move

 Sears Island  Wind Port proposal?                                                                  Read all 17 sections and 2 appendices, as seperate pdf files

In this document, a  94 page November 2021 report put out  by consultants  Moffatt & Nichol for the Governor's Energy Office, tries to make the case for ignoring a perfectly ample alternatives to Sears Island to develop the state "Windport": Bath Iron Works.

Offshore Wind Port Infrastructure Feasibility Study full 94 page study Concept Design Report Moffat & Nichol . Nov 2021

Cover letter_report cover

Table of  Contents

Part 1 Introduction  

Part 2 Study Purpose  Part 2A

Part 3 European Examples

Part 4  Floating Offshire Wind Criteria

Part 5 Proposed Sites

Part 6 Initial Analysis/ Elimination of 2 sites

Part 7 Site Characteristics of remaining two sites

Part 8 Site Layouts and  Required Infrastructure

Part 9  VHB Environmental Assessment on Recommended Infrastructure

Part 10 Cost Estimating and Construction Schedules

Part 11  Assessment of Proposed Site

Part 12. Port of Searsport Offshore Windhub

Part 13 Sears Island Conservation Area Proposed Improvements

Part 14. Offshore Wind Comercial Analysis

Part 15 Recommended Next Steps

Part 16 Project Geotechnmical Risks 

Part 17. Limitations of this Report

Appendix A.  Conceptual Drawings 9 pages

Appendix B. Cost Estimates and Schedules 

App B1 Construction Schedules/  Proposed Phases Charts

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