MORNING SENTINEL • April 9, 2020
I’d like to thank the CleanEnergyMatters ads for clarifying the grand scale of their proposed NECEC line through Maine. They even drew it on the map for me, showing what looks like a corridor from Lewiston, up along Route 4 and 27 past Sugarloaf, to the Canadian border. I know this route is inaccurate, but it does enable me to envision what we’re considering. It’ll be analogous to a new I-95. Transmission Developers Inc. has offered a fully permitted, fully supported, fully underground and viable, shovel-ready solution that would carry the same amount of power through Vermont in an underground cable. But apparently Central Maine Power — our local tiny cog in the giant Spanish Iberdrola empire — has calculated it’s cheaper to trash Maine than let them construct a less-destructive route elsewhere. ~ Robert Nelson, Clinton