BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 30, 2022
A long-debated effort to buy out the infrastructure of Maine’s large electric utilities and replace them with an elected board qualified for the 2023 ballot on Wednesday. It sets up another high-stakes showdown over energy policy after voters in 2021 rejected the $1 billion hydropower corridor led by the unpopular Central Maine Power Co., whose parent has already set aside more than $10 million to fight the consumer-owned utility proposal and push its own referendum to submit the required billions in borrowing to another vote.