SUN JOURNAL • May 13, 2020
Avangrid Networks asked a court Wednesday to block state officials from putting a referendum on the November ballot that could overturn the decision by regulators to allow the construction of a controversial 145-mile hydropower transmission line. The suit argues the referendum would be unconstitutional because it tramples on the rights of regulators, legislators, judges and other officials to weigh the issues involved in the proposed project. Sandi Howard, of the NO CMP Corridor PAC, called the suit “just CMP’s latest stunt to try and keep the people of Maine from having a say over their for-profit corridor project.”