I still do not understand the idea that the CMP power corridor will spoil the attractiveness or nature of the western Maine forests. Or the continued use of the phrase “clear cut,” as if they planned to strip western Maine of trees. Much of the route follows an existing power line, more is through working (clear cut?) forest and only one mile crossed “sacred” public lands.
I live three miles from the Capitol dome and have a 190-foot-wide power line corridor cutting diagonally through my 40-acre, selectively cut wood lot. The “clear cut” only uses 5.5 acres and allows easier access to the rest and grazing for deer. If you want to see it, drive out South Belfast to the light by the ambulance station at Cony/Church Hill Road. On the green at the crazily timed light, turn left and look left as you start down the hill. Then imagine how much damage it would do if lost in a few million acres of working north woods.
Once the oil company-financed furor passed, almost no one would have noticed any difference in the north woods while the increase hydropower will help slow the disastrous effects of climate change.
Harvey Verseeg
Augusta
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