PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 20, 2021
Mainers pay a higher percentage of their income on electric bills every year than the residents of all but two other states. New England Clean Energy Connect will provide some much-needed relief. With NECEC, clean, renewable hydropower will flow directly into Maine’s electrical grid and then straight into our homes. Three out-of-state fossil fuel companies – Calpine (based in Texas), Vistra (also based in Texas) and NextEra (based in Florida) – want to stop NECEC because they see it as a threat to their bottom line profits. They even financed a petition-gathering campaign to put a question on the ballot to stop clean energy from coming into Maine. Vote “no” on the November Big Oil ballot initiative, designed to stop clean energy. ~ Cammy Reali, Portland