BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 1, 2023
Most Mainers agree we want affordable, reliable, and Maine-made clean energy to power our homes and businesses. A wind farm, called King Pine, has been proposed for an area in Aroostook County northwest of Houlton. The region has never had the infrastructure necessary to unlock its potential until now – and given the skyrocketing energy prices we are all experiencing, it could not have come at a better time. King Pine Wind would generate enough zero-emissions renewable energy to meet the needs of the equivalent of approximately 450,000 residential electricity customers. With our company having built nearly all of Maine’s wind power projects, we have seen firsthand the economic impacts. Maine should seize this momentous opportunity. ~ Jackson A. Parker, Reed & Reed Inc., Woolwich