BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 3, 2021
The companies behind the $1 billion hydropower corridor that Mainers voted against in a referendum on Tuesday filed the first of what are expected to be a series of lawsuits to save the project, calling the citizens’ initiative “unlawful.” NECEC Transmission and Avangrid Networks filed the lawsuit in Maine Superior Court on Wednesday alleging that the Question 1 citizens’ initiative violates legal principles including vested property rights, separation of powers and the contracts clauses in both the Maine and U.S. Constitutions.