MAINE WIRE (Maine Policy Institute) • January 10, 2024
At a hearing on Monday, Maine’s committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, held a confirmation hearing for Tom Dubois, the representative of Franklin County on the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC). But Democratic lawmakers, acting at the behest of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) and other liberal nonprofits, turned Dubois’s confirmation into an hour-and-a-half debate about a coming vote on the Pickett Mountain mining development in Northern Maine. The committee failed to confirm Dubois, leaving Franklin without a representative on the LUPC.