AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Legislators have voted to endorse a bill to require the state to cancel and potentially renegotiate a lease for Central Maine Power’s proposed $1 billion transmission project.
The Portland Press Herald reports the Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee voted 9-to-0 on the bill Tuesday.
Opponents of the transmission line are hoping to use the renegotiation requirement to block or impede CMP’s New England Clean Energy Connect project.
The proposal now goes to the full Legislature for consideration. If it passes, it will have to get by Gov. Janet Mills.
