MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • February 6, 2022
Three months after Maine voters endorsed a law aimed at preventing the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line from moving ahead, opponents are working on at least four legal fronts to decisively kill the embattled project in 2022. As they proceed, teams of lawyers representing project developer NECEC Transmission LLC are doing their best to keep the $1 billion venture alive. Time is an enemy of the project. NECEC’s chief executive told the DEP in testimony last fall that a delay reaching into the summer of 2022 would make it impossible to put the project in service by August 2024, a contractual deadline with utilities in Massachusetts, though that date could be extended.