PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 23, 2022
While CMP is mulling over rate hikes (“Our View: CMP rate debate has to be a farsighted one,” to prepare its infrastructure for the future, it might want to consider a glaringly obvious solution. Stringing our wires between “trees” (poles) seems so 19th century when we have the ability to bury supply lines such as natural gas, fiber optics, etc. Efforts should be made to bury lines wherever possible, or we will continue to be paying to combat weather and climate in the future. ~ Jake Hawkins, Arundel