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The red line indicates where the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor would cross through Wilton into Chesterville. The two green areas labeled as WET-114-01 and WET114-02 are wetland areas that the high-transmission line would cross over.
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WILTON The Planning Board on Thursday reviewed the New England Clean Energy Connect’s site plan application relative to the Wilton’s Energy/Transportation Conduits Ordinance and accepted that it was complete.
The NECEC application requests the approval to erect five high-transmission poles in Wilton as part of Central Maine Power Co.’s 145-mile corridor for transporting Hydro-Québec energy from the province of Québec, Canada to Massachusetts.
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The battle over a power line in Maine features a television advertisement depicting felled pine trees in the wooded U.S. state paired with noir images of a corporate tower in modern Bilbao, near the Guggenheim art museum. A voiceover declares: “A good deal for Spain, and a bad deal for Maine.”
The Spanish utility company Iberdrola S.A.’s political action committee has spent almost US$15 million to promote its US$950 million New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) electric transmission project which would run for more than 230 kilometres. Yet last month opponents won a partial stay of construction in court and an activist group filed papers to hold a state referendum to revoke its permits.
/CNW Telbec/ - In a presentation on its financial results for 2020, Hydro-Québec announced that it had posted net income of $2,303 million, down $620 million.
Many locals wary as CMP corridor breaks ground near The Forks
Poles went up at an existing corridor near The Forks this week, but that doesn t mean everyone s happy.
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The first pole of Central Maine Power s controversial hydropower transmission corridor is prepared for installation Tuesday near The Forks. The pole was erected on an existing corridor that had been widened near Moxie Pond. Associated Press/Robert F. Bukaty
Peter Dostie stood atop Johnson Mountain on Wednesday morning envisioning where the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect will run.
The owner of the Hawk’s Nest Lodge in West Forks Plantation, Dostie and six other locals were out on a back country snowmobile ride. During a break on a chilly morning, he reflected on the first poles go up on the controversial New England Clean Energy Connect.