SPECTRUM NEWS • July 21, 2023
Jeffrey and Margaret Dyer own 83 acres in Palermo and on a clear day, they can see Mount Washington in the distance. The land has been in Jeffrey’s family for 150 years and they someday hope to give their four children parcels if they decide to raise their families in Waldo County too. But on Thursday, the Dyers stood outside the Commercial Exhibits building at the Windsor Fairgrounds holding a piece of paper that shows a proposed new power line could run right through the middle of their land. The Dyers were two of many who came to the fairgrounds to listen to officials with LS Power Grid Maine, a subsidiary of a Missouri company, explain their proposal for an approximately 150-mile corridor that will bring wind power from Aroostook County to the grid near Windsor. A timeline that shows they hope to receive approval from the PUC in mid-2024, complete right of way acquisitions by late 2025 and be in service by mid-2028.