Letter: CMP’s ‘clean energy’ project exploits Indigenous people

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 2, 2023

In the last five years, we have heard that Central Maine Power’s New England Clean Energy Connect is going to bring “clean energy” produced by Hydro-Quebec to Massachusetts. Somehow lost in this discussion is what Hydro-Quebec and the province of Quebec did to the Indigenous peoples to get this power. In continuously stealing their land and resources, they have condemned these people to a life of poverty, and robbed the current and future generations of their way of life, their heritage and their traditions, which is why five First Nations in Canada strongly opposed the construction of the NECEC project. I stand proud with those Mainers who say “no” to this project. ~ Kimberly Lyman, Caratunk