CMP, Avangrid spent dark money to drum up support for controversial power corridor
Electricity for the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect project will travel through Central Maine Power Co.’s substation on Larrabee Road in Lewiston — and a $250 million converter station yet to be built on Merrill Road, a key hub of the corridor. CMP and its parent company, Avangrid Inc., have been pouring money into efforts to boost public opinion for the project. (Photo by Roger McCord/Maine Monitor).
Electricity for the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect project will travel through Central Maine Power Co.’s substation on Larrabee Road in Lewiston — and a $250 million converter station yet to be built on Merrill Road, a key hub of the corridor. CMP and its parent company, Avangrid Inc., have been pouring money into efforts to boost public opinion for the project. (Photo by Roger McCord/Maine Monitor).
Central Maine Power Co. and its parent company funneled thousands of dollars through the Maine State Chamber of Commerce to tout a construction plan to bring Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts through western Maine — a project that’s expected to earn the utility $1.95 billion over the next 20 years.
The financial ties between the utility and chamber were obscured by tax laws that do not require nonprofits like the chamber to disclose their funders.
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The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta.
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