PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 9, 2020
We are already seeing impacts to our Gulf of Maine fisheries, to our 17 million acres of woodlands, to our 22,000 miles of brook trout streams and to all the rest of our precious Maine flora and fauna. This is why we need the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor. It will deliver the biggest, quickest and least impactful block of carbon-free energy available to Maine and New England. Clean Energy Connect will jump-start us in meeting our climate goals for a carbon-free future. ~ Chris Ayers, Pownal, and Richard Anderson, Portland [Note: Chris Ayres' spouse, Elizabeth Swain, is Director of Strategic Communications, for POWER Engineers, which has contracts with CMP/Avangrid/Iberdrola, backers of the NECEC project. Richard Anderson and Elizabeth Swain both previously worked at Barton and Gingold, public relations consultants.]