MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • December 22, 2024
In his recent opinion piece (“You want climate action in Maine? Be my guest,” Nov. 29), Jacob Posik of the climate change-denying Maine Policy Institute (MPI) is, once again, speaking for the oil and gas industry and not for the people of Maine. He doesn’t understand the cost of inaction. Standing down on modernizing our energy systems, as espoused by MPI, means sacrificing our fishing communities, winter recreation businesses and local forest and agricultureindustries. It also threatens our cherished way of life like hunting, blueberry picking and skiing. What we can’t afford is to be misled by pawns for Big Oil masquerading as neighborly economists, encouraging us to give up on what we love about Maine. ~ Philip Conkling, Camden