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The Maine Board of Environmental Protection had been slated to meet last week to hear arguments about whether the project's conditional permits should be invalidated. But those meetings were canceled because so many board members or staff had either tested positive for COVID-19 or had been exposed. That will result in a further two-month delay on the appeals because all parties cannot gather again until July 20 and 21.
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A set of appeals challenging the state's environmental permit for Central Maine Power's controversial energy corridor and its transfer to a spinoff company are on hold. But a draft decision by staff at the Board of Environmental Protection would uphold both.
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Maine's Supreme Judicial Court took up two cases Tuesday whose outcome could determine the fate of the billion-dollar energy corridor through Maine's western woods, first proposed more than three years ago by Central Maine Power.
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The Senate initially backed the bill Tuesday, but it stalled in the House after Republicans united with Democratic advocates of an outright utility takeover that failed in the legislature last year but could end up on next year's ballot.
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CMP suspended most work on the U.S. side of the border in November. The state Supreme Judicial Court is expected to hear oral arguments in CMP's challenge to the statewide vote this spring.
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A state judge has denied a request from Central Maine Power and its partners to block enactment of a voter-approved law that prevents further construction of a controversial, high-voltage transmission line through western Maine.
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Maine’s business court heard arguments Wednesday over whether the developers of a controversial electricity corridor through Western Maine should be able to resume construction or are bound by last month’s vote on Question 1.
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A cybersecurity firm sued the parent company of Central Maine Power Co. in federal court this week, alleging it engineered a bid-rigging scheme in the tens of millions of dollars aimed at increasing payouts from ratepayers.
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Some fifty Maine lawmakers are calling on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to end his state's support for Central Maine Power's controversial transmission line project, now that state voters here have roundly rejected it.
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CMP and its partners have agreed to stop work on a transmission line through western Maine while a court considers their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a referendum to block the project.