MAINE PUBLIC • October 28, 2020
Three environmental groups are suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing to require a full-blown Environmental Impact Statement for Central Maine Power’s proposed transmission line through the state’s western woods. They say the Corps and CMP worked together, behind the scenes, to avoid a full and fully public analysis of the project’s impacts on unique wildlife habitat, on public health and safety and on net emissions of greenhouse gases. David Publicover, senior staff scientist at the Appalachian Mountain Club, says the project’s worst impacts would be along an area of working forest that stretches from the Canadian border to Caratunk.