SUN JOURNAL • March 9, 2023
Central Maine Power is busy hiring the best lawyers to win one legal battle after another to build the New England Clean Energy Connect (Corridor), whether Maine people like it or not. Does CMP care that Maine voted 60% against the corridor, that 25 towns oppose it, that the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, United Steelworkers Maine Labor Council and Bath Iron Works’ largest union oppose it? TDI-NE is a proposed high-voltage, underwater and underground transmission cable between Quebec and Vermont. It is permitted, dig-ready and capable of moving clean energy between Eastern Canada and New England in both directions. Why then is CMP shoving its corridor down our throats? I suspect it has little to do with the best interests of Maine and much to do with the best interests of CMP’s owners. ~ Amy Partridge-Barber, Carrabassett Valley