If we are going to decarbonize the energy economy, Maine is going to need infrastructure projects like the proposed transmission line.
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Maine Voices: Vote A for smaller shelters, better path forward for our unhoused neighbors
Portland doesn’t have to build the largest shelter north of Boston in order to provide effective services.
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Maine Voices: Don’t like the CMP corridor? Consider the alternatives
To supply the same amount of power as NECEC, it would take 2,500 wind turbines, 25 million solar panels or 24 new Wyman Dams.
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Commentary: Question 3 a common-sense effort to secure the right to grow our own food
If you want a more ecologically sound and economically free and just food system, vote ‘yes.’
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Sen. Craig Hickman: Vote ‘yes’ on Question 3 to reaffirm that all power is inherent in the people.
Maine should amend our Constitution to enshrine a right to food, the state senator and organic farmer writes.
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Vegan Kitchen: Maine’s Right to Food referendum, yea or nay?
Mainers will vote on the referendum in November. Supporters say it takes power from corporate food interests. But opponents argue it could endanger animals and threaten food safety.
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David Flanagan: To forge clean-energy future, Maine needs hydropower, established utilities
Reducing carbon emissions will require a balance of carbon-free energy sources and more aggressive monitoring of CMP and Versant.
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Commentary: Newsom crushed the California recall. Let the phony fraud probes begin
As we look back on a waste of an election that cost taxpayers $276 million, the governor should take this moment to reflect on his shortcomings.
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Attorneys argue over whether CMP power line referendum should be 1 question or 3
The issue is whether voters will have an ‘all-or-nothing’ choice this November on a ballot question that aims to block the 145-mile transmission line.
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Our View: Gov. Mills’ veto won’t end public power debate
Fed-up consumers will still likely get the last word on the future ownership of Maine’s electric grid.