Yes, Central Maine Power is a poorly-run company, owned by an overseas energy conglomerate. Hopefully we will someday replace it here in Maine with a publicly-owned electric utility.
For now, this is what we’ve got, and so the issue with the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor is really about carbon reduction. Yes, some trees will be cut, but the carbon reduction that would come from replacing fossil fuels with hydropower is far more significant, and will go on for years.
It doesn’t matter that the power comes from Quebec and goes to Massachusetts — Maine suffers from climate change no matter where the burning of fossil fuels takes place, and we will benefit no matter where such burning is replaced with clean energy.
We have to think globally, not locally, in order to get the best local result, i.e. not losing the lobster industry, natural snow, the chickadee moving away or the termites moving in. We need to vote no on Question 1 in order not to lose this opportunity to make some genuine reduction in atmospheric carbon.
Jonathan Cohen, Farmington
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