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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said backers of No Blank Checks collected more than enough signatures to be approved for the state ballot in November.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said backers of No Blank Checks collected more than enough signatures to be approved for the state ballot in November.

Letter

With Pine Tree Power now on the ballot, we’ll soon vote on whether we want to use eminent domain to seize Central Maine Power and Versant Power at a cost of more than $10 billion, then turn around and create a whole new government agency for electricity. What’s the point of borrowing billions from Wall […]

Some issues to come up are power reforms, privatisation of PSUs, rising fuel prices, Centre usurping powers of states and others

To the Editor:

But an opposition group, which is mounting a citizens initiative of its own, says it has gathered enough signatures to blunt the effort.

Next November, Mainers will be able to vote for Pine Tree Power, a nonprofit public power company. Like many others I’m fed up with Central Maine Power’s poor customer service, high rates and priority on the bottom line. In her Dec. 1 letter (“Opposed to possible power moves by Pine Tree Power”), toeing the company […]

Despite having excellent workers, Central Maine Power is a mismanaged failure. It is an impediment to a reliable, clean energy future at reasonable cost. The private-sector cure for such abysmal performance is to change management, fix the business model and implement a better strategy. How is Pine Tree Power, the proposed customer-owned utility, going to […]

An Electricity Supply Board Networks planning application to Longford County Council relating to the winding up of an Ash Disposal facility been granted approva...