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Energy Company Appeals CMP's Permit For Western Maine Transmission Line

Fred Bever
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Maine Public
The peak of Coburn Mountain in western Maine overlooks woods through which CMP would construct its transmission line.

A major energy company is appealing the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s permit for Central Maine Power Co.’s controversial proposal for a new transmission line through western Maine.

In a notice to the PUC, Nextera Energy Resources says it is challenging the decision on several grounds. Among its objections, Nextera says the PUC should have required CMP to perform a full analysis of nontransmission alternatives to the project, did not consider other reasonable alternatives to the project and should have considered ways to mitigate detrimental environmental effects the project would create.

Under state law, appeals of PUC decisions go directly to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Originally published May 7, 2019 at 4:25 p.m. ET.

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.