Wording approved for power line ballot question
The state received 119 comments on the proposed question, which will go to voters Nov. 2, during a 30-day public comment period.
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The wording of a referendum question that will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot, prompted by opponents of the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, has been approved by Maine’s secretary of state.
The wording of the citizens’ initiative question, titled “An Act To Require Legislative Approval of Certain Transmission Lines, Require Legislative Approval of Certain Transmission Lines and Facilities and Other Projects on Public Reserved Lands and Prohibit the Construction of Certain Transmission Lines in the Upper Kennebec Region,” is now finalized, according to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.
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A major new transmission line intended to pipe carbon-free hydropower from Canada into the U.S. Northeast has met a powerful opponent: the world’s largest provider of renewable energy.
The 145-mile (233-kilometer), nearly $1 billion transmission line, known as New England Clean Energy Connect, broke ground in February after nearly three years of review by regulators. If completed, it would be able to import 1.2 gigawatts of electricity from the Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec. That’s enough to reduce carbon emissions in the region by 3.6 million metric tons a year, according to the project’s developer, Avangrid Inc., or about 12% compared to 2019 levels.
MONTREAL Hydro-Quebec says the Canada Energy Regulator has issued the permit authorizing the construction and operation of the Appalaches–Maine Interconnection line. The new power transmission line will connect to the New England Clean Energy Connect and carry 1,200 megawatts of Quebec hydroelectricity to New England. The company says the project now has all the permits required for construction, from Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande in Quebec to.
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