Opinion: Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce: NECEC offers some hope for Maine’s economy

MORNING SENTINEL • May 17, 2020

These are tough times for all of us. Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce is hopeful the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission project will bring our state some of the new jobs we will need to start our economic recovery. Already, four well-known companies have received contracts totaling more than $300 million to build the project. They will need more than 1,600 people to get it done, and they will be giving preference to Mainers when they fill those jobs. The sooner they start the better. ~ Kimberly N. Lindlof, Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and Central Maine Growth Council