MORNING SENTINEL • September 22, 2022
The Maine people and most of our legislators were late to the table in learning of CMP’s plan for corridor status through the western Maine mountain wilderness. We moved forward with a successful referendum to bring the NECEC decision to the ballot. Avangrid and Augusta pushed back through litigation, the delayed appeals process at the DEP, and by dragging their feet in shutting the project down. The delays, and the illegally obtained permits facilitated by Augusta, emboldened CMP to cut the canopy through 52 miles of America’s last stronghold for native brook trout. We now wait to learn if the Maine Constitution will be upheld, and the will of the people honored. Until then, my seventh-generation family will keep pushing back against this proposed project of mass destruction through the lands of our ancestors, on both sides of the border. ~ Sheryl Hughey-Harth, Jackman