SUN JOURNAL • April 14, 2020
The Public Utilities Commission for Maine no longer has the authority over Maine’s utilities that it once did to force them into action to help the consumer. The Legislature has listened to the utility lobbyists rather than the consumers, and has neutered the PUC’s once-feared authority. Why, then, do we pay for a government agency created to protect the consumer that is no longer doing so? The answer as to why the huge power outage? The utilities have saved large sums of money by ignoring the tree trimming needed to protect the power supply. ~ George Fogg, North Yarmouth