The television ads related to CMP’s proposed $1 billion transmission line project started late last year when Stop The Corridor, often referred to as a “dark money” group because its funding source is unknown, ran an ad in several Maine markets. Read More
Supporters and opponents of Central Maine Power Co.’s proposed $1 billion transmission line have combined to spend at least $1.8 million on TV, Facebook and radio advertising since late last year. Read More
The two-term former Republican governor is tending bar at McSeagulls Restaurant in Boothbay Harbor this summer. Read More
The Bangor Daily News analyzed the money at stake to see who would benefit and who would lose if the line is completed, and what’s in it for the people of Maine. Read More
The contracts that would govern power sold over the completed transmission line “undermine the original intent and purpose” of the project to bring new amounts of clean, renewable power into New England, the Massachusetts attorney general and environmental groups said. Hydro-Quebec, which would sell electricity over the line, called the idea “illogical.” Read More
Central Maine Power ranked dead last among 85 utilities for business customer satisfaction last year, at the same time that its net income increased 88 percent over 2007 levels. The Bangor Daily News reviewed hundreds of pages of documents, and interviewed current and former employees, regulators and customers to understand the specific decisions that led the company to this point. Read More
A BDN investigation shows all the billing issues still plaguing Maine’s largest electric utility and that the company tried to have customer complaint cases closed before they were actually resolved. Read More
In addition the group didn’t tell the IRS what it was doing, prompting a former IRS official to say it was “weird in the sense that it’s not the way a well-run or even a poorly run tax-exempt organization operates.” Read More
After delivering a pivotal vote that helped seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Maine Sen. Susan Collins had her best fundraising quarter ever. Read More
Will the line help save the planet? Only one company knows for sure, and it’s not really saying. Read More
Here are seven facts. Read More
