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There’s something in the air at Bowdoin, and it’s local politics. The Brunswick Town Council just unanimously approved a new ordinance expanding opportunities…

Pine Tree Power is a political ploy. It is to become a platform for Southern New England’s quest for “clean energy.” For the last 10 years, politicians have used its regulatory authority to contract more wind, solar and battery storage using the investor-owned public utilities (Central Maine Power and Versant) as the middleman. The middleman […]

Southport resident Climo Smith was one of nearly two dozen attendees Oct. 13 at a Pine Tree Power informational session in Boothbay Harbor, and he asked the question on everybody’s mind. “How will ratepayers pay for the estimated $13.5 billion in...

Question 3 (Pine Tree Power) in the upcoming election is a shaky proposition that raises more questions than it answers. Nobody knows exactly how much it will cost. Most agree it will take billions of dollars to buy out the electric utilities. If adopted, it will likely take between five and 10 years of litigation […]

Their rates are too high and their reliability is too low. And they’ve had plenty of time to fix both and haven’t.