Letter: CMP power line not the only choice

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 23, 2020

Backers of the “Clean Power Corridor” proposed to cut a swath through western Maine forests – CMP and Hydro Quebec – are buying massive amounts of advertising to lay a guilt trip on Mainers by inferring that there is only one choice – we must approve the corridor allowing hydro power to flow to Massachusetts or else we will be responsible for releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Missing from the public discussion is that there is an apparently fully permitted alternative, Vermont’s “New England Clean Power Link,” which would bury conduits. ~ William Bunting, Whitefield