MAINE PUBLIC • October 16, 2023
Nearly 100 opponents of a power line that would connect southern Aroostook County to central Maine rallied in Augusta Saturday afternoon. The 1,200-megawatt power line would run from Glenwood Plantation to Coopers Mills, sending electricity south from a 1,000-megawatt wind farm that's proposed for Aroostook County. The Public Utilities Commission accepted LS Power's bid to build the project last year, and it won legislative approval in June. But critics say the 150-foot-tall powerline would cross many farms, woodlots, wetlands, and other environmentally sensitive areas. They'd rather see it follow existing powerline corridors, or highways. Or buried underground.