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Court Upholds Legality of Lease That’s Key to $1B Power Line

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Nov 30, 2022
Court Upholds Legality of Lease That’s Key to $1B Power Line

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)– Maine’s greatest court on Tuesday maintained the lease for a little area of state land for a $1 billion electrical transmission passage, a success for designers who intend to finish the job. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled all that the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands acted within its authority in renting a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) stretch of the 145- mile (233- kilometer) power transmission line. All informed, the state lease covered about 32 acres (13 hectares) of land in western Maine. The New England Clean Energy Connect remains on hold pending the result of another legal case concentrating on the constitutionality of a referendum in which Maine citizens rebuked the job. Central Maine Power’s moms and dad business, Avangrid, and Canada’s Hydro Quebec collaborated on the job that would provide approximately 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid. Advocates state such vibrant tasks are required to resolve environment modification. Critics compete the power line would damage forests while stopping working to provide on assured ecological advantages. Political Cartoons “Today’s judgment by the court is yet another action in the ideal instructions for Maine’s renewable resource future. The major requirement for the NECEC job to minimize our dependence on fo
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