KENNEBEC JOURNAL • December 11, 2022
I have an answer for the city of Augusta regarding the I-95 cloverleaf solar arrays: Bring the Department of Transportation to court. The DOT has no authorization to contract power projects on its land holdings. Statues supporting the DOT had to be amended to allow bike lanes and salt sheds to be constructed and likewise the DOT should have gone to the Legislature to expand its powers to build solar projects. Placing these projects front and center after the city had taken steps to limit public view of such installations is an affront to taxpayers and the ratepayers. ~ Mark Daigle, Manchester