Response to Maine Public Radio's story "Funding gap puts Maine's wind port plans in jeopardy." https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2024-12-10/funding-gap-puts-maines-wind-port-plans-in-jeopardy BEGIN On December 12, 2024. a Maine Public News story warned that "Funding gap puts Maine's wind port plans in jeopardy." Wait..."Funding Gap"? Maine Public's Peter McGuire knows his headline SHOULD be: "Biden Administration's latest funding rejections put Maine's windport plans in jeopardy." But Mcguire, who occupies MePublic's Climate Desk, is really a "Climate Industry" reporter. He covers the energy part of Maine's Natural Climate by describing the competitive political, regulatory and economic activities of the offshore wind industries, as they negotiate with their political allies and our public servants. Despite the alarm bells and buoys now being rung about the effects on ocean current stability of offshore wind extraction by academic, governmental and private ocean science researchers around our planet, McGuire does NOT cover the possible and probable real-world damage and side effects of the Governor's proposed windtower manufacturing port. Not his department? In fact, opponents of Maine's proposed offshore wind port and manufactory on Sears Island are not allowed to air their knowledge and point of view on Maine Public Radio. Censorship has officially reared its ugly head here. Be you a scientist, a govt official, a commercial fisherman, an ecologist or environmentalist - no matter how well informed - if you question the govenor's wind initiative, Maine Public will censor you out! For MePublicans, Mills is officially Maine's plucky global heroine. Omniscient, she may not be contradicted. If Mills has declared that Sears Island (the very heart of the Penobscot Estuary), is the only possible place for Maine to lead the world developing, deploying and repairing floating offshore wind turbines - that's good enough for the Me Publicans. Yet Maine is so far from being a "leader" in this global initiative that our Democratic coastal governor couldn't get windport funding even from the Democratic Biden Administration. Hardly surprising. For after 15 years of expensively whipping their dead seahorse, University of Maine and its ever changing consortia of floating offshore wind interests remain unable to produce and launch even a SINGLE full size prototype cement ocean wind turbine. Not even a half size one! In closing, MainePublic's Wind business reporter McGuire and his managers have steadfastly betrayed their listeners and readers by toeing the Gubernatorial line: (1) No examination by MEPublic reporters of the well documented likely damages to climate-critical Maine ecosystems is allowed, and . (2) No representatives of interests with concerns about the governor's windport industrializing Sears Island, are given airtime on Maine Public. That this is censorship at its very worst augurs a need to replace Maine Public's baldly biased leadership Without such change, reasonable public points of view that conflict with political and monied interests will continue to be censored. That must not be allowed to go on. The Maine legislature needs to hold hearings on Me Public's and other officially "public" non-profits' habit of censoring reasonable points of view from the public. END