BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 15, 2021
The campaign over the question aiming to kill the corridor through western Maine is entering the homestretch, with less than three weeks left until Election Day. Roughly four-fifths of more than $60 million spent on the referendum has come from Central Maine Power Co. and its allies, who are trying to save the project with a “no” vote on Nov. 2. Clean Energy Matters, CMP’s main political committee, has generally championed the value of the transmission line that would bring Quebec hydropower to the regional grid that faces grassroots opposition. But they have taken more of a back seat in recent weeks to an allied group, Mainers for Fair Laws, that has blanketed the state with ads and mailers discussing retroactive portions of the law.