Letter to the Editor: Good for Maine?

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Central Maine Power is presenting its transmission line proposal as “Good for Maine.” A similar project was proposed to N.H. but with a substantial benefit package offer for impacted communities. N.H. rejected the proposal!

The CMP project proposed for Maine will clearcut a 53-mile corridor of forest and extend a 90 mile existing corridor by 75 ft, impacting vernal ponds, streams, wild life habitats, the Kennebec gorge and parts of the Appalachian trail. The removal of forest will increase CO2 levels and modify the micro-climate which disrupts local ecosystems. It will limit Maine’s ability for future alternative energy resources and diminish recreational and private property value due to much higher transmission towers and landscape degradation.

In addition to the extensive negative impact on our environment, most of the expected jobs will not go to Maine workers but out-of-state labor force and there will be no monetary compensation (benefit package) for impacted communities.

Maine is asked to sacrifice its environment and communities for a transmission line that
brings energy to Massachusetts. What in this proposal is Good for Maine? Nothing!

Sabina Tosch
New Sharon

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  1. I agree this is not good for Maine. CMP should be offering the same package they offered NH and Vermont and we should get to vote on it as well. The people in Augusta shouldn’t be allowing this to happen but it seems the puc and others are afraid of CMP. I also believe that we should stop with wind farms and solar fields. Maine produces the majority of the power for the grid in New England and we are the only state getting shafted. If Mass needs more power let them put them off shore in Cape Cod and let them look at the ugly things.

  2. This whole idea and plan is going to be part of the New World Order plan for the NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC GRID which will include Canada-The United States and Mexico. Look deep into the AGENDA 21 plans which will remove control of major utilities from the United States. The onslaught of the new ‘SMART METERS’ was a necessary part of this program. Our local Officials have no idea what they are approving. There are big plans in the works folks and if you care at all ..it is time to do some deep research on what is really going on with CMP, The North American Grid and Agenda 21.

  3. Green energy? The only thing green about green energy is, the color of the money it costs. You cite environmental concerns, to put up the required number of wind turbines to equal the electricity that this pole line will deliver, would require 2500 wind turbines and 60,000 acres of land cleared. And apparently you are not familiar with Maine’s labor laws, paraphrasing: If you are a company that uses union tradesmen( linesmen, drivers, etc) you have to hire local non union laborers.(unskilled workers) CMP uses union tradesmen. They are using single metal lightpoles and hold rubber coated wires, windmills slaughter birds and require constant up keep and they all drip oil and lubricants into the ground. lightpoles are low impact. Either way you go, wire, wind or solar, there are trees that are going to have to go, at least with a poleline they don’t require separate roads and leveling large tracts of land to make like windmill pads do. You should read the proposal, section 1 of the line goes through already harvested and currently active wood cutting sites, sections 2 and 3 are going to use already existing polelines that don’t need to be widened. And with the lines comes a use of access right of way, that means that ATVs, snowmobiles, cross country skiers, snowshoers etc. and anybody else can use them. visual impact is minimal as the poles don’t break tree top height. and people already use and drive by the existing polelines. Should have done more research before making your list of treehugger talking points.

  4. The Agenda 21 conspiracy is tinfoil hat nonsense championed by the likes of the John Birch Society, Glen Beck, Ammon Bundy, and Tom DeWeese. Right-wing fringe now becoming mainstream, it’s also been championed by Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz. I’m sure there are many websites offering “deep research” on the topic.
    The reality is this: the Rio Declaration is an entirely nonbinding and voluntary agreement which 178 countries entered into at the Rio Earth Summit almost a quarter of a century ago. It’s not a treaty, does not override national sovereignty and does not allow the UN to dictate what governments do. It has no legal force and is not intended to be implemented in a top-down way.
    While it may be next to impossible to disprove a conspiracy theory, opponents of the CMP project should avoid association with this argument. Their opponents will laugh them out of the conversation.

  5. Hrtlss this hydro dam is about as green as it gets. The problem is not the lines that they put up its the fact that Mass is geting the energy at the cost of our state and we will get the shaft end of it. Mass needs to start producing their own power and stop ******* with our way of life. Let them put turbines and solar fields in their state. If this line comes into Maine let it stop here shut down the flow and give us cheap power.

  6. Nice try seamus…But in today’s world conspiracy seems to hold more truth than the left wing Communist Crap that the major networks puke out every day on the 5 oclock news. You really need to do your homework. When the Wilton Town Officers were going to hold a hearing before CMP put Smart Meters into town…CMP assembled every installer to converge on Wilton so the meters could be put in prior to that meeting….Conspiracy?? Why do so many uninformed people follow those who resist having strong borders? The North American Union…Conspiracy ?? There are many who will have to be hit on the head before they realize our country is being torn apart by those who shout ‘Conspiracy’ the loudest while they themselves go about their own Conspiracies. Quick !! Look over there…It was not me..it was him..over there. A real conspiracy for you today is a Portland Mayor wanting to let Non-United States Citizens Vote…but that is just diversity !!!

  7. It’s one thing to say that CMP used aggressive tactics to install Smart Meters. They did. It’s quite another to say that Agenda 21 is an international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious local property rights. It’s not. See above.

    The major news networks of which you speak are owned by large corporations. If GE, NewsCorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS were bastions of communism it would come as a big surprise to their shareholders and corporate officers.

    I fail to see how the proposal which would allow legal residents of Portland to vote in municipal elections is a conspiracy. It still requires a city council vote, city vote, and possible court challenge prior to enactment.

    People who champion strong borders and denigrate international law seem to be begging for war.

    Try again.

  8. Thank you Roaring Lion/Soaring Eagle for knowing about Agenda 21/2030. What goes on behind the “curtain” has been ongoing for decades and hidden in plain sight. Rosa Koire exposes all of this in her book “Behind the Green Mask.” People who think conspiracy theories are not real do need to do more homework and wake up to the fact that they have been duped.

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