To the Editor: As I did a wide circle drive in search of fall foliage colors this past weekend, I was hit by the realization that there are so many houses/families without representation on a local level. Think: Plantations, unrepresented territories and so forth. The only way that those places and the people in them […]

To the Editor: It’s sad when so many people and organizations who oppose the development of the Hydro-Quebec/CMP’s electricity corridor use so many emotionally-charged, untrue and/or misleading statements to oppose its development from the Quebec/Maine border to the West Forks. Of the total distance, 53 miles of a 150-300-foot wide, west-to-east corridor is planned through […]

To the Editor: Central Maine Power’s (CMP) electricity corridor is a bad deal for Maine for many reasons, and I believe that is why CMP, which has been ranked as the worst-run U.S. company for customer satisfaction (https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/central-maine-power-again-ranks-worst-in-us-for-business-customer-satisfaction), is spending millions of dollars on deceptive ads trying to confuse people and convince them to support […]

To the Editor: Clean Energy Matters, NECEC, Mainers for Fair Laws, NewsUpdate Maine, Avangrid, Iberdola. These are all CMP, trying to avoid their worst in the nation reputation by calling themselves anything but what they are. First it was about jobs, then the environment, now it’s about deceitful advertising intended as scare tactics by their […]

To the Editor: You may have heard of SeniorsPlus in the context of Meals on Wheels or of us being the Area Agency on Aging for Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties, but did you know we offer workshops for adult Mainers of all ages? Through our partnership with Healthy Living for ME, SeniorsPlus offers programming […]

To the Editor: First CMP tried to distance their abysmal reputation from the CMP corridor project, designed to deliver power to Massachusetts through the heart of western Maine. Many saw through this ploy and, despite being subjected to a $30 million PR campaign, Mainers remained unconvinced that it’s a good deal. Now, just weeks before […]

Energy Matters Index (with apologies to Harper’s Index) Current total number of U.S. jobs in the fossil fuel industries (coal, oil, gas): 200,000 Current total number of U.S. jobs in the solar and wind power: 450,000 Potential number in the wind and solar as fossil energy is phased out: 1,000,000+ Annual sustainable energy from one […]

To The Editor: The Covid-19 Pandemic has put a financial strain on many Mainers, and for some that means struggling to pay rent and utility costs. On August 26, the US Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary eviction ban that was put in place because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Through […]

Our recent column “Is Biomass a Climate Solution?” generated some feedback from members of the biomass industry in Maine. We greatly appreciate feedback, so we would like to respond. To review the column’s content, our main point was that using wood pellets from mature trees in place of oil or gas is not going to […]

To The Editor:  The Covid-19 Pandemic has put a financial strain on many Mainers, and for some that means struggling to pay rent and utility costs. On August 26, the US Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary eviction ban that was put in place because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Through […]