Judge sides with federal agencies, won’t pull permits for NECEC


Environmental groups claimed the Army Corps of Engineers did not assess the controversial power line rigorously enough before determining it would have 'no significant impact' on the environment.


April 1, 2025
Hannah LaClaire

Portland Press Herald

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A federal judge has decided not to revoke permits for the controversial New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, effectively ending a long-running legal battle — but not until more than a third of the project had already been completed.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker on Monday ruled in favor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Energy, after several environmental groups sued the federal agencies over their environmental analysis of the $1.5 billion 145-mile transmission corridor to bring Canadian hydropower to the New England grid.
The Appalachian Mountain Club, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Sierra Club Maine in 2020 alleged the Army Corps failed to rigorously assess the transmission corridor project’s environmental impact on 53 miles of undeveloped forestland in western Maine.......................................................


.......................It was not immediately clear if the environmental groups plan to appeal.

...............The corridor is expected to be finished by the end of the year. The project is organized under NECEC Transmission LLC, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based Avangrid Inc., the parent company of Central Maine Power Co. Both are controlled by Iberdrola, a Spanish multinational energy company.
The transmission line will connect 1,200 megawatts to the New England electrical grid.

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 3, 2025 at 10:00am

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Says He Would Support Legislation To “Ban Geoengineering And Weather Modification”
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 2, 2025 at 12:21pm

A slack-jawed, dumbfounded Sen. Angus King of Maine noted that the 2025 annual threat assessment by the U.S. intelligence community made no mention of climate change. Tulsi responded by saying, “I can’t speak to the decisions made previously, but this annual threat assessment has been focused very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national security.”
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Comment by Dan McKay on April 2, 2025 at 7:23am

The Appalachian Mountain Club, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Sierra Club Maine should be investigated to the source of their funding.

 

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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

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"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."

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