{"id":967978,"date":"2021-11-04T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967978"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:28:51","slug":"maine-voters-reject-clean-energy-project-endorsed-by-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maine-voters-reject-clean-energy-project-endorsed-by-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Voters Reject Clean Energy Project Endorsed By White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaine-voters-reject-clean-energy-project-endorsed-by-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967978&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Maine voters rejected a proposal to construct a nearly $1 billion transmission line into the state from a Canadian hydropower plant, a project endorsed by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Central Maine Power (CMP) already started construction on the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line which would\u2019ve stretched 145 miles, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2021-maine-hydropower-line-54dea1a948e9fc57a667280707cddeb7\">reported<\/a>. But nearly 60% of Mainers voted against the project, the most expensive proposition in state history, in a referendum this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote sends a message to CMP that Mainers want to reject this corridor. They want to preserve the integrity of western Maine,\u201d No CMP Corridor director Sandi Howard told the AP. \u201cMainers clearly don\u2019t trust CMP to develop a project of this magnitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hydropower line would\u2019ve provided enough energy to power one million homes in New England, according to the AP. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills both said the project was vital for the region to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/environmentalists-joe-biden-white-house-vladimir-putin-natural-gas-oil\/\">(RELATED: Environmentalists Are Making Putin Stronger Than Ever)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe (NECEC) transmission line will bring clean energy to New England and reduce carbon emissions equivalent to taking 700k cars off the road,\u201d Granholm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecGranholm\/status\/1453798870903787520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> on Oct. 28. \u201cI hope Mainers vote NO on ONE to keep this project moving and reliable, affordable, #CleanEnergy flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7315239\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7315239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maine Governor Janet Mills, Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend the Climate Action Summit 2019 at the United Nations in New York. (Timothy A. Clary\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Democrats supported the transmission line, many environmental groups opposed it, arguing that it would require massive deforestation stretching 53 miles, according to the AP. The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/deforestation-pact-united-nations-climate-change-joe-biden\/\">joined<\/a> an anti-deforestation pact at the ongoing United Nations climate conference in the U.K. earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Avangrid, CMP\u2019s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necleanenergyconnect.org\/constitutional-challenge\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> in Maine on Wednesday, arguing that the referendum was unlawful, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avangrid.com\/wps\/portal\/avangrid\/pressroom\/pressrelease\/2021\/21-11-03%20necec\/!ut\/p\/z1\/pVFdb4IwFP0re_ER7y1FZHsjROM0zMSNCX0xfBRkAYql0-3fr7qXmU3msj7ctM09J-cDGITAmnhfFrEqRRNX-h0xe0OJP5lZHj6gO7HQXS39ey8g5nI2hvVpgSydCVk4pu8szCm6c_vJneKcoD0Cdg0eLxwXr8P3LLB--mdgwNJGtWoLUVzITSt510kh6gF-u_KKxx0foIkm0ZMYhBhIbxqe8vTI06ZlBtHYpjbPsszIcDQyLCu3DYfmqYExNUls5wlFU-tmJ2l9yf2mfQ6sqETyWZPbJNQpgEmec8nl8FXq761SbXc3wAEeDodhIURR8WF6NPQTZCs6BeH5JkQ64PHFgG8JrPclP0DQCFlrJY9_zGF2stFfoZZavux2zNVNiUbxN63yX1VpQlP6nq-9t7HaGmWTCwi_AiE8AvU8B7Z1EAS1Q-2V806rfe0ljq9GkfsBbBRVMA!!\/dz\/d5\/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh\/?current=true&amp;urile=wcm%3Apath%3A%2Fagr_pressroom%2Fpressroom%2Fpressrelease%2F2021%2F21-11-03%2Bnecec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to a press release. The utility company accused fossil fuel companies of dishonestly swaying voters to oppose the project and funneling millions of dollars into a campaign to block it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have followed the rules every step of the way in a transparent and public process and have received every regulatory approval required for this project to proceed, however, fossil fuel companies have done everything they can, including misleading Mainers, to try and block this clean energy project,\u201d Avangrid subsidiary NECEC Transmission chief executive Thorn Dickinson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis referendum was an act of bad faith by self-interested proponents and was targeted at stopping a single project,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson added that federal and state regulators already approved the project and 124 miles of transmission corridor had already been cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine voters rejected a proposal to construct a nearly $1 billion transmission line into the state from a Canadian hydropower plant, a project endorsed by the Biden administration.Central Maine Power &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}