Opponents To CMP Transmission Line Are A Step Closer To Making The Project A Ballot Question

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published October 18, 2019 at 3:13 PM EDT

Opponents of Central Maine Power's plan to build a major new power line through western Maine got the green light Friday to gather signatures for a statewide ballot question that could kill the project, which is formally known as the New England Clean Energy Connect.

In a press release, Sandra Howard, the director of "Say No to NECEC," says the group will immediately begin to gather the tens of thousands of signatures needed to get the question on the ballot in November 2020.

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Fred Bever

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.

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