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PORTLAND — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has released the final ballot language for the citizens' initiative called “An Act To Create the Pine Tree Power Company, a Nonprofit,
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court sided with advocates for the proposed Pine Tree Power Company in an official opinion on Monday regarding Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ ballot question
If successful, voter approval would be required for a consumer-owned utility, such as one being proposed on the same November ballot, to take on more than $1 billion in debt.
The Maine secretary of state is ordered to draft a new referendum question that doesn't use the word 'quasi-governmental' to describe a proposed consumer-owned electricity company.
The case boils down to whether or not the phrase "quasi-governmental" accurately describes a consumer-owned electricity initiative