MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • September 4, 2022
Last year, a clear majority of Maine voters decided that a proposed power line – the so-called New England Clean Energy Connect – should not be built in our state. Now Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has held that the referendum we voted to approve must be struck down if work on the project was done in good faith and was too far along when the vote was held. But one thing has been noticeably absent. Central Maine Power and other backers of the project have never explained how taking electricity generated and currently used in Quebec and transmitting it 150 miles to Massachusetts would do anything to counteract climate change. CMP is planning to make some money, OK, but what is their NECEC power line going to do for climate protection? ~ Jon Hinck, Portland