PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 13, 2023
The core issue of Question 3 is not what’s wrong with a company that doesn’t yet exist, but what’s wrong with Central Maine Power and Versant Power – so wrong that they need to be replaced for the good of Maine people. Two big things are wrong with them. Their rates are too high and their reliability is too low. And they’ve had plenty of time to fix both and haven’t. Question 3 starts a process, one with many fail-safes along the way to the final transfer. CMP and Versant want to kill any hope of lower rates and better service. Pine Tree Power offers a chance of at last bringing Maine up to national standards. ~ Gordon L. Weil was Maine’s first Public Advocate and headed the state energy office