PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 7, 2020
Supporters of a planned 145-mile hydroelectric corridor through Maine, including the state’s largest electricity supplier, have spent nearly $17 million since last fall to back the project, which is being challenged by a referendum. Voters will be asked in November if they want to block the corridor project, which will carry energy generated by Hydro-Quebec in Canada to Lewiston, where it will enter the New England electric grid, destined for customers in Massachusetts. Pete Didisheim, director of advocacy for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, called the spending by the referendum’s opponents “obscene.”