Maine towns, environmental group challenge one of CMP corridor’s key permits

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 10, 2020

Three parties—West Forks Plantation, the town of Caratunk and Kennebec River Anglers—are challenging a conditional permit for a $1 billion hydropower project granted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. They are asking the department for a stay to postpone its activity on a May 11 permit approval for Central Maine Power’s controversial New England Clean Energy Connect project, which would bring hydropower from the Canadian border through Maine. In a separate filing, the Natural Resources Council of Maine, an environmental advocacy group, on Wednesday filed both a stay of the permit decision and an appeal of it with Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection.