AUGUSTA, Maine — Three Republican Maine legislators will travel to Quebec this week for a series of meetings with Canadian government officials and business leaders.
Issues to be discussed during the meetings Wednesday and Thursday include energy, trade and economic development. The three legislators making the trip, Reps. Ken Fredette of Newport and Jeff Gifford of Lincoln, and Sen. Roger Sherman of Houlton, are members of the Maine-Canadian Legislative Advisory Commission. Fredette chairs the commission.
The delegation will begin with meetings Wednesday with members of the National Assembly of Quebec. They will also meet with representatives of an organization that seeks to reinforce relations among Francophones in Quebec and elsewhere, economic-development and natural resources and wildlife officials, and representatives of Hydro-Quebec.
Good time for these legislators to make progress on achieving
a long term contract with HydroQuebec for low priced, renewable, reliable power
for Maine.
Wind power is not reliable or economical and
has already destroyed too much of Maine’s scenic vistas in addition
to sucking up subsidy dollars for Angus King and other developers.
Once again, a waste of our tax dollars. We have telephones, teleconferencing and Email and it is NOT necessary to take a paid vacation just to gab with another politician across the border.
Dammed right Bill. Use what’s available and on-hand.
And for those of you who are so anxious to get Hydro’s power, someone had better start thinking a whole lot better and with some foresight. Once Hydro has Maine under contract they are gonna be, ala Cianbro, completely free to jack up their rates with no possibility of oppositon from competition since Maine signed it all away in the contract. No, Maine needs a balanced power system, be it LNG, bio-mass, oil or even wind. But to turn over the entire State’s power supply contract to Hydro is not just not thinking. It’s stupidity taken to the highest point of iresponsibility. Maine needs balanced power. Once Maine goes down the sole provider road, there’s no going back. And when the Canadian’s get in a money crunch, well, guess who they’re gonna be looking at as ‘The Bank’ to go bail them out ? And no, The Queen is not gonna come running from London with a liferaft.
Oh, and by the way, guess who’s the primary electrical construction contractor that Hydro use’s ? If you feel a familiar stick ‘prodding’ you, your close.
yeah but hopefully they will think to bring back a couple skids of some of that great Canadian beer, ….. a true natural resource.
it is high time legislators look at the expensive inefficient scam that is wind and get rid of the expedited wind law and put a moratorium on the projects that have not gone up..before it is too late and Maine and what it stands for is more ruined..than it is already from the harm to our natural resources existing wind farms have created on some of our most pristine areas.
when you see articles like this you know the wind companies are unethical and wind is not needed or efficient or cost effective..OR good for the environment..
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