Much talk these days, with head-scratching citizen initiatives, if Maine people cannot get the governor on board for important business, then there’s the legal means: a citizen referendum. With much effort of the Legislature and people, Maine’s secretary of state validated the Our Power initiative’s signatures to get on next year’s ballot.

This is no surprise. Time and again Mainers have been fed up with a whole slew of issues relating to Central Maine Power’s performance. For years the Our Power organization, an experienced group of legislators, economists and electrical engineers, diligently researched, studied and discovered a way forward that will drastically drop electric rates, move Maine quickly to meet its climate goals and achieve this at a cost of billions below CMP’s plans. (What plan is that?)

CMP, a Spanish-owned multinational corporation, trades on the world stock exchanges. Mainers like local, and Our Power will be a nonprofit, owned and operated by Maine consumers. It will keep all the current on-the-ground employees and not be run by Maine’s government.

With the CMP-backed Maine Affordable Energy initiative, it is now certain that the bully will be rearing its ugly head. Money is funneling in from CMP and its Spanish owners to do whatever is needed to squash the Our Power initiative. It’s no wonder that we’ll all receive huge rate hikes on our electric bills.

We can expect millions spent on lies, misinformation and fear-mongering from the CMP bully.

Clifford Krolick
Parsonsfield

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