To the editor:
Why should Maine build the so-called East-West Highway, a road for Canada?
The road has no purpose other than to meet the needs of Canada’s energy interests. Why don’t Canadians build, and pay for, a road across Canada?
It will make very few people in Maine rich, and that will definitely not include you or me.
We, the unfortunate majority, will simply suffer all the negatives of this unnecessary super highway in our peaceful backyards.
Why would anyone in Maine want to build a huge road with a 2,000-foot corridor that takes properties by eminent domain, demolishes rural life and divides the state?
It’s not a good idea except from the perspective of the few rich entities that will get richer from this project.
So much for “life as it should be,” at least in northern Maine.
Meredith Perkins
Stephen Perkins
Sangerville
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