PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 25, 2020
Maine’s regulatory agencies got it wrong for NECEC, but there’s still time to overturn their misguided permit decisions. NRCM appealed the Department of Environmental Protection permit for the CMP corridor because DEP failed to protect the health of our forests, waters and wildlife, and failed to assess the veracity of CMP’s claim that the project would reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions. Given the widespread harm this project would have on western Maine forests and brook trout habitat, Mainers deserve to know whether CMP and Hydro-Quebec are telling the truth. Maine voters should have been allowed to vote to overturn the PUC permit, and the DEP permit should be struck down on appeal. ~ Lisa Pohlmann, Natural Resources Council of Maine