BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 21, 2021
I am one of hundreds of Mainers who helped collect over 80,000 signatures to get Question 1 on the 2021 ballot, and one of hundreds of thousands of Mainers who voted yes to reject the CMP corridor on Nov. 2. For over two weeks since Election Day and Central Maine Power Co. continued to blaze a cut through western Maine. According to a recent poll, an overwhelming 64 percent of Maine voters — along with Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s leading environmental organizations — believe that construction of the CMP corridor should be halted. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection must permanently suspend the permit to ensure a continued halt in construction of the New England Clean Energy Connect at once because, as Mills stated in her recent letter to the company, CMP’s actions since Election Day were disrespectful. ~ Carol Howard, New Gloucester and Caratunk