BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 27, 2020
Maine has a long history of contentious fights over power, public lands, and dams—many of them in the western Maine mountains. There are still people around who remember battles over CMP’s construction of the Flagstaff Dam in 1950. A lot more remember the proposal to develop Bigelow Mountain as a ski resort in the 1970’s, and Great Northern’s planned Big A dam on the West Branch Penobscot in the 1980’s. CMP’s proposed powerline looks like it may be the same kind of battle. Let’s hope Maine makes the right choice. ~ Jeff Reardon