BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 25, 2021
Maine lawmakers who unsuccessfully tried to ban corporations owned or influenced by foreign governments from spending in state referendums filed on Wednesday to put their effort on the 2022 ballot. It marks the fifth referendum effort targeting Central Maine Power Co. dating back to last year and comes as an outgrowth of the political fight over the utility and its $1 billion hydropower corridor to bring Hydro-Quebec power to the regional grid through western Maine.