BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 14, 2021
A $1 billion hydropower corridor continues to draw controversy as legislators who visited the first segment of the project in a remote part of Somerset County said Wednesday that the utility in charge of it cannot meet permit requirements, a claim the company denied. Legislators have also said public lands were wrongfully leased for the project. Those leases have been the subject of a lawsuit against Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands, which approved the leases. The legislators said leases on the land should have had two-thirds approval by the Legislature.