BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 22, 2021
A pivotal court decision last week kick-started an ad spending spree from opponents of Central Maine Power’s controversial powerline project. The utility has been spending consistently since a second referendum was floated last fall, mostly focusing on the economic and environmental benefits of the project being run by CMP and Hydro-Quebec. Those ads — officially run by CMP’s political action committee, Clean Energy Matters — are meant to improve public opinion of the project, and have seemed more necessary for the company as prospects of a second referendum, and legal challenges to the corridor, have grown more potent.