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NECEC Transmission LLC, et al v. Maine Public Utilities Commission, et al
The Maine Judicial Branch has set up this web page to post information on this matter, NECEC Transmission LLC et al. v. Maine Public Utilities Commission, et al, Business and Consumer Docket (BCD) docket number BCD-CIV-2021-58.
Jury Trial Notice:
Jury Trial will be held at the Cumberland County Courthouse, beginning Monday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m., and is expected to last through Wednesday, April 19. (Please note that no trial will occur on Monday, April 17th due to the Patriot's Day Holiday).
BDN: "CMP and parent Avangrid have been engaged in more than five years of legal challenges and efforts to secure public and regulatory approvals. Avangrid and NECEC Transmission said in their lawsuit challenging the referendum’s validity that they had spent almost $450 million before the project was stopped, or more than 40 percent of its total estimated cost. They also said 124 miles or 80 percent of the right-of-way for the project had been cleared."
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on April 8, 2023 at 6:42pm
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The spent their money before they had a clear permit to allow them to proceed. Now they cry that they have a vested interest.though it is not a legal vested interest, they took a gamblers chance and now expect the court to rule in their favor even if it means setting aside a Jury verdict.
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Comment by Dan McKay on April 8, 2023 at 6:54am
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The project was originally scheduled to start in 2019 and be completed and in-service by 2022, according to CMP. The date for completion was moved to the second quarter of 2023 following the law court’s ruling last November that a state-issued lease over public lands was valid. It is now expected to be done this December.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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