BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 3, 2021
The governor expressed deep skepticism about an effort to create a consumer-owned utility. Gov. Janet Mills had been relatively quiet on a bill to send a question to voters on whether to create the Pine Tree Power Co., which would create a nonprofit and buy out the state’s big electrical utilities. But it was still unsurprising that she criticized the measure Wednesday on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” and said lawmakers need to study it before they pass it to voters “sight unseen, basically.”