A meeting that could help decide the future of the New England Clean Energy Connect was postponed Monday.

According to the Portland Press Herald, the meeting to review appeals to a conditional permit to build the hydropower transmission corridor in Maine was pushed to a later date after half of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection’s members, including the chair, either tested positive for COVID-19 or were potentially exposed.

Members say the meeting, originally scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, may be pushed out to late June.

Documents assembled for the meeting show that staff with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection have largely rejected arguments made by the corridor’s opponents regarding environmental impacts like soil erosion, and the effects on wildlife and wetland habitat. They also indicated that there was no need for a public hearing on the appeals.

The project was rejected by a voters in a statewide referendum last year.

Last week, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in 2 cases that could decide the fate of the 145-mile corridor, which would deliver hydropower from Canada to Massachusetts.

Rulings on those cases are expected in the early summer.