BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 15, 2021
A Maine judge signaled Wednesday that he will rule this week on a request to let the builders of a $1 billion hydropower corridor resume construction before a new law goes into effect on Sunday that would stop the corridor. District Court Judge Michael Duddy said he wished he had more time to review the request to halt enforcement of the anti-corridor referendum passed by voters in November, but he has only two business days to consider it before the new law goes into effect. However he rules, the case is likely headed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The project was halted after a Maine regulator cited the referendum in suspending a key permit.