High court judge says CMP affiliate must not work on disputed mile of corridor project

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 17, 2021

A judge on Maine’s high court ruled that a Central Maine Power Co. affiliate must refrain from work on public land on roughly one mile of its 145-mile hydropower corridor. The ruling, made Wednesday by Justice Joseph Jabar but delivered to the lawsuit parties on Friday, said developers must refrain from all construction activities, including vegetation removal, on the leased premises in the West Forks Plantation and Johnson Mountain Township public reserved lands during the length of an appeal to lift the stay. NECEC LLC, the CMP-affiliated developer of the $1 billion project, said work can continue on all but the disputed area and called the ruling a “blow to opponents of the project and their efforts to halt construction entirely.”