Environmental and land use regulators will consider a change to Central Maine Power’s plan for a major transmission line through Western Maine to bring Canadian hydropower into the regional grid. In a procedural order filed Thursday, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Land Use Planning Commission agreed to reopen the case record to consider CMP’s plan to re-route about a mile of the transmission line to avoid a protected pond near the Canadian border. The power company proposed the 145-mile transmission line nearly two years ago. The case record has been closed since May, while regulators decide whether the project meets land use and environmental standards. “The presiding officers grant the applicants’s petition to reopen the record, effective up issuance of this order, for the purpose of allowing the applicant to amend the applications and gather additional evidence needed to evaluate the proposed alternative route,” the order states. A process for providing intervenors in the case and the public a chance to review and comment on CMP’s proposed change will be addressed in a subsequent order, regulators said. Central Maine Power said the amended route is a preferred alternative because it skirts a specially protected zone around Beattie… Read full this story
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