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Controversial power line caught up in high-stakes power struggle
Central Maine Power is racing to build its New England Clean Energy Connect corridor as foes continue to throw up legal obstacles.
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Logging crews have begun clearing trees to widen the existing Central Maine Power transmission corridor near Moxie Pond in The Forks. Photo courtesy of Susannah Warner
Driving home along Moxie Pond on the Troutdale Road in The Forks, Denise Rancourt can see the loaders, excavators and harvesters in the adjacent forest, cutting and limbing trees.
Crews had cleared three or so miles on the side of the existing Central Maine Power transmission line as of last week, she estimated.
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Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Jared Golden worked hard to ensure that $200 million was included in the COVID-19 emergency relief package to support Maine loggers, who have been hit hard by the economic downturn associated with the pandemic. This funding is meant to help the industry “get through this difficult period,” Sen. Collins said […]
Is This Our Party Anymore? Maine s Establishment Republicans Who Got Canceled
Former Maine Senate President Kevin Raye attended his first Republican convention in 1978 and didn’t miss one until 2016. Former state Sen. Roger Katz, also a lifelong Republican, remembers attending a parade for President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954.
But in January, Raye and Katz “got canceled.”
Their peers in the Waldo County GOP ratified a resolution that banned Raye and Katz from running for public office as a member of the party.
“It’s ironic, isn’t it?” Raye said in a recent phone interview.
Ironic because the modern Republican Party has vigorously framed so-called cancel culture loosely defined as societal punishment or expulsion for voicing unpopular ideas as an existential threat to the republic. In this case, Raye and Katz got canceled for announcing their support last fall for President Joe Biden.