Maine Judge Vacates Public Land Lease for NECEC Tx Line
A proposed 145-mile transmission line with the capacity to carry 1,200 MW of Canadian hydropower from the Maine-Québec border to Lewiston, Maine, is threatened by a dispute over a 1-mile corridor through state public lands in the Upper Kennebec Region of Maine, pictured above. | Shutterstock
Aug 12, 2021
Environmental groups that oppose the NECEC project argue it would be destructive to the largest undeveloped forest east of the Mississippi River.