SUN JOURNAL • March 31, 2023
CMP’s New England Clean Energy Connect claims it would bring “clean energy” to Massachusetts from Canada (by tearing through the western Maine forest). It claims it “would allow Massachusetts to meet its future carbon reduction goals.” There is a problem with that claim. A big problem. That energy is not clean. In testimony at an Army Corps of Engineers hearing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Dr. Bradford Hager stated, “the carbon footprints of Hydro-Québec’s power as documented in the peer-reviewed scientific literature make it among the dirtiest hydro in the world.” This is really about Hydro-Quebec’s bottom line, not the climate. ~ Elizabeth Hamilton, Brunswick