SUN JOURNAL • April 30, 2020
It is time for Central Maine Power to come clean and stop telling tall tales about the New England Clean Energy Connect Corridor around jobs, lower electric rates and “clean” hydropower. It needs to tell the truth. For CMP, the corridor is all about huge profits and nothing more. Maine’s biomass industry will be devastated (worth $850 million annually), and Maine could lose local renewable energy businesses, all for 38 full-time jobs. Finally, there will be no greenhouse gas reductions. During the DEP permitting effort, CMP’s lawyer made it very clear at least six times this project was not about climate change. NECEC is a bad deal for Maine, and needs to be rejected at the ballot box in November. ~ Tom Saviello, former state senator for Franklin County