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A friend once said, “the more ads you see for something, the worse it is for you.” They were talking about junk food, but I could say the same for Central Maine Power/Avangrid, who’ve spent $16 million to sell us on the New England Clean Energy Connect, a project Mainers know precious little about.
NECEC might be a good investment for these companies, but isn’t good for Maine.
There will be new short-term jobs constructing the corridor. There will also be job losses in outdoor recreation, and at biomass plants and lumber mills.
Discounts to CMP ratepayers will be spread over 40 years which, according to Natural Resources Council of Maine, will reduce monthly electric bills by 6 cents.
Next step for Maine’s climate goals: Proposed laws to make them reality
Dozens of ideas being promoted by lawmakers this year represent the next phase of state government s aggressive effort to address a rapidly changing climate.
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Workers are installing 30,000 solar-electric panels at the BNRG/Dirigo solar farm off Route 26 in Oxford, part of an unprecedented wave of large-scale solar projects being developed in Maine. The 38-acre site, adjacent to Oxford Plains Speedway, had been zoned for a business park.
Photo courtesy of BNRG/Dirigo
Some new proposals for environmental legislation in Maine are aimed at specific goals, such as speeding up weatherization efforts in Maine homes, or expanding solar energy use and evolving battery technology to store the power at night. Others are broader, such as conserving more land to sequester carbon dioxide, or asking Maine residents to bond $50 million to help communities adapt to a rising sea level.
Leaders of No CMP Corridor say they collected those signatures in near-record time. Author: Don Carrigan Updated: 6:21 AM EST January 22, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine Box after box went through the security gate at the Cross State Office Building, as opponents of the proposed transmission line to Quebec pursued their latest effort to block the controversial project.
Leaders of No CMP Corridor say they collected those signatures in near-record time, starting the petition just before Election Day in November and gathering signatures from more than 500 Maine towns and cities in just over two months. The boxes of petitions were wheeled upstairs to the Secretary of State’s office, which will now review all the signatures to make sure there are enough valid names to put the issue on the referendum ballot.
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COMMENTARY BY THE INNU, ATIKAMEKW, ANISHNABEG COALITION ABOUT HYDRO QUÉBEC S HYDROELECTRICITY EXPORT PROJECT TO THE UNITED STATES
KITCISAKIK, QC, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -
Once again Hydro-Québec has celebrated a premature victory regarding the interconnection line it plans to build through the State of Maine to Massachusetts. In a press release published Friday January 15, 2021, in the Province of Quebec, the state-owned corporation indeed announced that The Federal Department of Energy (US-DOE) has granted the presidential permit to the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line project (NECEC). – According to the document – All regulatory authorizations necessary for the realization of the project have therefore been obtained in the United States.