David Cole, Maine Commissioner of Transportation. Cole's crew cooked up the "Sears Island Joint Use Plan" scheme, and annonced that the government wld only interact on Sears Island with people who signed an agreement that the western third of the island - and its rich shoals - is and appropriate place for development of a commercial port.
Smelling money and free land, the shallow environmentalists of the Sierra Club and landtrusts flocked to Cole's joint use banner. While that majority in favor of continued existed of the undivided natural island.
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