BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 4, 2021
An group opposed to Central Maine Power Co.’s $1 billion hydropower corridor asked the state to halt construction on Thursday, less than two days after Maine voters resoundingly rejected the project. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is considering whether or not to pull its authorization of the corridor after a lower-court judge ruled in August that the state had no authority to grant CMP a lease to public land in rural Somerset County. On Wednesday, CMP’s parent company, Avangrid, filed a lawsuit saying the voter-approved law is unconstitutional. But the anti-corridor Natural Resources Council of Maine asked the department on Thursday to stop construction.