At Gov. Mills’ request, NECEC will suspend construction on power corridor project

Portland Press Herald [Maine] ^ | Friday, November 19,2021 | Megan Gray

[Steven Scharf]

Portland Press Herald At Gov. Mills’ request, NECEC will suspend construction on power corridor project

BY MEGAN GRAY, STAFF WRITER Friday, November 19,2021

The developer of a $1 billion power transmission line through western Maine said Friday that it will temporarily suspend construction on the project while a legal challenge plays out in court.

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[The Pull Quote] “This was not an easy decision,” [Thorn Dickinson, CEO and president of NECEC Transmission] said in a statement. “Suspending construction will require the layoff of more than 400 Mainers just as the holiday season begins. It will also require the suspension of millions of dollars in future benefit payments being made to customers, businesses and host communities.”

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In his statement, Dickinson noted that electricity supply rates will go up more than 80 percent next year for most Maine customers. That increase is the result of climbing prices for natural gas, which is used to generate half of New England’s power.

“It is ironic that the day after our fossil fuel opponents were awarded a more than 80 percent raise, paid for by hard-working Mainers, we are now being forced to lay off workers and suspend benefit payments to the state,” he said. “It’s a valuable return on their more than $25 million political investment, while Mainers bear the environmental and economic cost.”

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NECEC would bring power from Canadian hydroelectric producer Hydro-Quebec to the New England electric grid. The controversial project would connect to existing transmission lines in western Maine through a 53-mile stretch of working forest. It would mostly benefit Massachusetts customers, who are covering its cost.

[Steven Scharf]

As noted in the last paragraph of the excerpt, this is about a DC power line being built through the woods of Western Maine, which will bring very cheap power into the New England electric grid. Massachusetts power regulators are building it to to access power from a long completed set of dams in the north woods of Canada. Although the democrat governor of Maine has supported this project (along with former governor, Paul LePage), she has kowtowed to the oil/gas/solar/wind mob who opposed this project to ask them to suspend operations.

Currently there are thousands of miles of transmission lines crossing through the woods, fields and landscape of Maine. Most of this transmission line will run along existing transmission corridors which merely need expanding to accommodate the new set of poles.

The builders of the project have full ownership or control of the entire route except for 1 mile that runs across state owned land. That is essentially what this battle is about. The opponents are claiming the state illegally signed lease agreements without proper legislative oversite. The land in question already has transmission lines running across it that were installed 50 plus years ago.

[Cen-Tejas]

Maine presidential results
Statewide
District 1
District 2
Democrats held this seat
CANDIDATE
VOTES
PCT.
Joe Biden
DEM
435,072
53.1%
Donald Trump*
GOP
360,737
44%
100% of precincts reporting (571/571)
*Incumbent

Embrace the Suck Mainers!

[Steven Scharf]

Thank you for sharing, but this has nothing to do with the subject I posted about.

[Cen-Tejas]

So, your argument this morning is that Democratic Party policies dont cause electricity rates to go up?

[americas.best.days...]

Yep. Fine with me. Dummies won’t get red pilled toll they’re freezing in their homes and out of money. F em.

[Steven Scharf]

No, I was pointing out the opposite. Dem Governor Janet Mills has kowtowed to the enviro nazis in asking them to pause the project. The referendum was supported by both prominent republicans and democrats in Maine.

I believe in the end the project will prevail in the courts and be finished. The opponents are trying to run them out of money.

[SuperLuminal]

Love it when those who support communism suffer...
Excellent news, IMHO...

[Cen-Tejas]

The referendum was supported by both prominent republicans and democrats in Maine.

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So, forgive me, I’m just trying to understand via the most expedient use of words possible. That said, reading the above sentence you wrote, then the problem is you have Marxist Dems controlling every branch of government in Maine (per Google) and those marxists dems are aided by RINO capitalist leaches and ticks who, in the name/disguise of bi-partisanship want to suck some of that money blood for themselves via gaining brownie points with the big money in Maine and globalists from around the world. Is that about it?

So, if I’m a Mainer and my $100.00 electric bill is now going up to $180.00 I should blame marxist dems and RINO’s................right?

[rxh4n1]

They won’t. They will just blame Trump, greedy power companies, or Republicans in general.

[Political Junkie Too]

So, no jobs and no electricity in New England?

Cool! Literally!

-PJ