Maine DEP suspends construction license for $1 billion power line

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • November 23, 2021

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has suspended the construction license for the New England Clean Energy Connect project, the latest step in a battle that has been fought in the courts and at the ballot box. In a ruling issued Tuesday, DEP Commissioner Melanie Loyzim said all construction work is to stop until the project’s developer either wins its legal fight over a public land lease in the project’s path or its constitutional challenge to the recently passed referendum question or if a court issues an injunction allowing work to continue while the legal maneuvering takes place.