BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 13, 2021
An appeals court judge on Thursday vacated an injunction that had prevented Central Maine Power’s parent company from starting work on the last 53 miles of a controversial hydropower project from The Forks to the Canadian border. The ruling came after a Boston-based U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled in January that the company could not start work on the northernmost leg of the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect project. Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, said the council will continue to pursue its case against the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Energy for allegedly failing to comply with a federal law requiring an environmental impact statement.