Please vote to stop the CMP Corridor in November. The largest contiguous temperate forest in North America and everything that lives in it, wetlands and streams sheltering inland waterfowl and wading birds, the last true stronghold for stream-dwelling wild brook trout, mountaintop vistas that take your breath away – all of this and more is at risk. You will hear plenty of greenwashing about this project between now and then. Don’t believe it.
CMP is spending millions of your own money – ratepayers money – to lie to you. Read the public record of testimony and public comment in the various permitting agency files. There is no documentation of any clear benefit to Maine from this project: no incremental clean power, no greenhouse gas reduction, no financial benefit to ratepayers (unless you count the $1.50 a month which is canceled out by the rate increases CMP requested in a separate case), no rate suppression benefit, fewer jobs created than lost, and it effectively blocks Maine renewable energy generation from getting to the grid.
This project is a land grab by a foreign-owned global energy conglomerate whose only interest is to ensure US energy dependency at our own expense by extracting from and damaging our lands. They are leveraging climate change and marketing a clean power story, but if you read the record, CMP states clearly under oath that this project is a merchant line that is not about addressing climate change.
The only thing green about it is the money – billions – that they will make by destroying the largest unfractured forest east of the Mississippi and the watershed it shelters, unless we vote “Yes” in November to stop it.
Monica McCarthy
Rome
Monica.. it is just awful…. When was the last time you went up into that area trout fishing?… Do you go up there often to visit the virgin forests? How long have you lived in Maine?
Blah blah blah, same old tired lies the Antis have been spewing for months.
It isn’t ratepayers money they are using, it is THEIR money they are using, you don’t go into Walmart and say, “The least they could do is carry mint mocha K cups, they are after all, stocking this store with customers’ money.”
It isn’t unbroken, there are roads running all over the place up there, hundreds of miles of them actually. And none of the land is protected.
Maybe go peddle your wares to the company in Hancock county who actually did fill in a clearly marked and well established protected wetland for their 33 mile long, 150ft wide transmission corridor.
HB,
Sorry to inform you of this but no one is getting tired over here in the anti side.
There’s a while lot more Blah Blahs where these came from.
Wow, you have gotten quite “sensitive” lately.
Keep yapping please.
I guess that’s understandable given that fact that all the high dollar lies from the foreign companies aren’t working.
We’re just a bunch of backwards hicks up here so we don’t know any better than to call a liar a liar..
CMP and HydroQuebec are Liars.
We don’t much care for that around here.
Blah,blah,blah!
NoStinkinCorridor!!
Thank You, Monica, for your inclusive and informative letter. My family, along with many other people, have
enjoyed spending time in, “The Enchanted,” area in Somerset County for many years. We have fished for trout,
hiked & explored the forests and mountain areas, explored caves, and kayaked on crystal clear mountain lakes for many years.
The only roads up in that area, except paved Route 201, are the occasional, “DIRT,” roads that are used for logging & recreation. The logging is done to allow & promote, ” REGROWTH,” opposite to the CMP Transmission Line wide swath through the forest will destroy trees in the path and treat the line area with chemicals to prevent regrowth.
I recently viewed, on-line, very recent pictures taken by Maine people, up in the Judd Road-Johnson Mountain area in North-Western Maine, in the general area where the proposed Transmission Line would run through. Not a single road, or development, is seen in the many, expansive, beautiful forestland views that include Johnson Mountain.
In summary, a, “FOREIGN- OWNED,” company wants to rip off Maine & the Maine people, with the destruction of a segment of our North Western Maine forestland, interrupting the flow & pristine condition of streams & lakes in the region, interfering with the habitat, movement & Wintering areas of wildlife in the area, and disrupting Trout habitats, and destroying the area forest with a wide swath through the land for the Transmission Line. Also, the livelihood of many, working in the recreational and social industry will be affected: Tour-Guides, Restaurants, Campgrounds, Camp & Vacation Rentals. Also, Private Property Values may be affected. Lastly, the power from the proposed CMP Transmission Line would be built to provide power to the state of Massachusetts!
So, using common-sense, I say, a, “Foreign Owned,” company makes millions with the Line while Maine and the Maine people lose a portion of our cherished , peaceful beautiful forests and mountains……WHAT A LAUGH!
I strongly urge our Maine Voters to VOTE DOWN the CMP Transmission Line in November 2020! Thank You!
Just want to remind all the tree huggers that you lost this battle when you voted for aunt janet.The vote in Nov. won’t get the corridor stopped.
Private Par…er Planet, Not more sensitive, just tired of the baseless nonsense from the Antis, they keep saying it’s bad for Maine without a single piece of evidence to back up their claims.
Will it create jobs? Yes
Will it provide a stream of revenue for Franklin and Somerset counties? Yes
Will it provide a pathway for other infrastructure? Yes
Will it help the other 13 counties? No, why would it, it doesn’t run through nor have anything to do with them.
Hrtlss and Glen,
You know, (of course you don’t) that I’ve made photographing those Northwoods and logging roads a big priority of mine these past few weeks.
Those pictures are readily available on the Say No to the NECEC Facebook page. I would urge you both to take a look and see what you folks are up against.
Better yet, go on up, take a drive on the Judd Road, hike up Johnson Mountain, and take a good look at “pristine.”
When you’re done take a walk by those beautiful trout streams on those other back roads. Get out of your vehicle and look at the wildlife and signs of wildlife in that area.
There is nothing that CMP, AVANGRID, and Iberdola can offer that would mitigate the damage that they’ll do in this area. And for what? Oh, that’s right, thirty eight permanent jobs, an unspecific “estimated” amount of money too certain towns, and a promise of lower green house gas emissions in the “region.” A promise that they would not back up with an independent study. A study they lobbied against…
The CMP Corridor is not a necessity for this state. Not now, not ever.
And as an afterthought, lberdola can stick those wind turbines they specialize in else where, because if that Corridor goes through, our North Wood’s view shed will be sprouting them in the foreseeable future.
No Corridor. Not now, not ever.
See you at the polls.
HB, at it again?
Jobs? 38 full-time – not 1600 seasonal (many of the people hired will come from PA or WI or MS and no one knows how many from each or from Maine.
What is the stream of revenue for Franklin? We will likely lose more jobs than are created or maybe break even. I don’t call that a clear win.
Oh boy, a pathway for wind towers or more HVDC lines that have the potential to do what ‘they’ did in CA and for which PG&E has now plead guilting to involuntary manslaughter for the fires there. Remember those? They are coming to Maine if we get this idiotic project.
Still don’t have an answer – how many shares of cmp (or Avangrid or Iberdrola) stock do you own???