Posted on 11/03/2021 1:15:09 AM PDT by blueplum
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mainers voiced their disapproval Tuesday for a 145-mile (233-kilometer) conduit for Canadian hydropower that was billed as either a bold step in battling climate change or unnecessary destruction of woodlands.
Utilities have poured more than $90 million into the battle over the $1 billion project ahead of the referendum on Tuesday, making it the most expensive referendum in Maine history....
...Three-quarters of trees already have been removed for the project, which calls for a transmission line that mostly follows existing utility corridors. But a new section needed to be cut through 53 miles (85 kilometers) of woods to reach the Canadian border....
However, the statewide vote won’t be the final word. Litigation over the project will continue long after the votes are counted.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Leaves a pile of stumps, fewer nesting places for song birds, and promotes edge-growth of “browse”, that grows deer herds.
I suppose the populist argument would be why are we relying on Canada for our electricity? We can make it here.
The clear cutting was trivial. The power and monies to leftist fat cats like the governor mills and her family and friends and some other politicians like Angus king and others was massive. A real pushback to leftist corporatist power push. These people continued their arrogant push even after the objections.
Tucker Carlson reported on this. Seems to me to be an ill-thought out project.
thanks for the insight, Chickensoup. I’m sitting out here in the desert going, 90% forest, what’s the problem but the picture sure changes focus when the curtain falls away from the backroom politics !
Any other elections in Maine?
Mainers cast a majority vote to freeze in the dark?
the only thing I found was District 86, Dem LaRochelle won over challenging Rep James Orr. Maybe a Mainer will check in later and add to the news
No, all those transplants from Massachusetts and New York who infest Portland and its' suburbs voted to freeze in the dark. They now pretty much outnumber real Mainiacs.
In case y'all aren't aware, Portland is now the largest LBGTQWERTY population north of NYC.
How many Democrats does it take to change a light bulb?
None. Democrats always prefer to remain in the dark.
Awesome, push electric vehicles but kill the infrastructure to handle charging thousands at a time.
We (my family) have a camp up in that area. In 15 years you will hardly notice the stumps and work done.
FYI - back in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s we were told in school that about 91% of ME is covered by trees. That is still true today. Some even say that it is about 92% now because the pasture and agricultural land is not being worked and has gone back to woodland.
Drivel...... unexpurgated bull shit
Not really. There was nothing in the deal for Maine’s CMP ratepayers. It was a bum deal with no benefits for us. The level of lies and obfuscation was off the charts. CMP spent over $90 million to push this through, and failed. I fart in their general direction!
Other factors that played into the voters choice were (that AP does not include in its article):
1. The deal made in the past was a backroom, illegal agreement
2. Over 80K of the voters signed the petition to have the people decide
3. It seems that almost 90% of the ads were made to promote this corridor
4. The ads claimed that big corporations were against the project and thus supporting efforts to stop the corridor - BUT someone spent a LOT of money promoting the corridor
5. Mainers (like VA voters seemingly) do not like to be bullied, deceived, and outright lied to
6. It did benefit New England (MA) but ME not so much
7. IF hydro power is so great why have we allowed the environmentalists to have their way in the past and destroy our own hydro power stations but Canada can?
Use a search engine and take a look at Moxie Falls. What will it look like after this corridor is in place?? It is at Moxie Falls where the above ground lines would have gone underground.
I drilled three wells in the Hoback Ridge area of Wyoming in the late 70s. I went back looking for them in the late 80s and had difficulty finding them. Around here we live in a hardwood jungle of sorts. You leave it alone for a few years and nature will reclaim open pasture. In 20 to 30 years you won’t know pasture was there. The problem now is invasive species taking hold instead of good native trees. The stinking ornamental Bradford Pears spread like dandelions.
New Hampshire, with an even greater coverage of trees, is opposing a similar venture.
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