PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 1, 2022
Over the next year, people will try to convince you that Pine Tree Power will solve all our energy issues. In reality, it’ll cause even more. Electricity costs will continue to follow the price of natural gas until we get more renewable energy onto the power grid. Meanwhile, if this Pine Tree Power proposal passes, court battles will go on for years and years, jeopardizing the upgrades we need to be making to bring those renewables online. We will all be forced to pay off billions of dollars of Pine Tree Power’s debt, plus interest, and, of course, all the lawyers’ fees. ~ Terri MacDonald, North Yarmouth