PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 21, 2020
Central Maine Power and Hydro-Quebec are spending an obscene amount of money in their desperate attempt to force the deeply unpopular “Clean Energy Corridor” through the forests of western Maine. We are told that CMP’s 145-mile transmission line from Quebec to Massachusetts will stop climate change, curb Lyme disease, stem the rising seas and protect future generations. These extreme claims have no basis in reality. CMP and H-Q should stop spending millions on their propaganda campaign to sell Mainers a project we don’t want. Rein in the private investigators and campaign consultants and tell the lawyers to stop threatening to sue the state if the people of Maine stop this project. Let us exercise our constitutional rights to vote on whether we support this project or not. ~ Pete Didisheim, Natural Resources Council of Maine