MAINE PUBLIC • November 4, 2020
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Central Maine Power a permit for the controversial transmission line the company wants to build through Maine’s western woods. News of the decision, which CMP released late Wednesday afternoon, caught opponents by surprise. Nick Bennett is staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, one of several conservation groups suing the corps to require a more rigorous environmental impact statement of the project’s effect on wetlands and other resources. “It’s quite a ploy on their part to try to sneak this in when people are trying to pay attention to such important events that are going in the country right now,” he says.