PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 26, 2023
The recent rate hikes granted to Central Maine Power and Versant really hurt when we reflect that both of these companies charge us 49% more than the consumer-owned utilities, now serving 97 towns in Maine, charge their customers. For-profit, investor-owned utilities CMP and Versant not only siphon off our dollars to enrich foreign corporations and the emir of Qatar, but also overcharge us $156 million per year for inferior service. We can do better (and cheaper!) than this. Please consider voting “yes” on the ballot initiative this November to replace CMP and Versant with Maine’s first statewide, consumer-owned utility, Pine Tree Power. Get the facts at ourpowermaine.org. ~ Bill Hammond, Barters Island