New_Sun6390 t1_j1sk310 wrote on December 27, 2022 at 1:42 AM

Reply to comment by KermitThrush in In the U.S., Maine has the longest power outages. by Zippykalzoo

The person pushing the Pine Tree Power proposal is as corrupt as anyone. He is also ignorant about the costs and challenges involved with running a grid.

$13.5 billion, people. And that is just the cost of acquiring the infrastrcture. Does not even take into account the cost to hire a FOR PROFIT company to operate the grid since the politicians pushing this don't know how.

Not to mention the loss of millions in property tax revenues taking all that I frastructure off the tax rolls.

Professional_Box8312 t1_j1td58b wrote on December 27, 2022 at 6:07 AM

Seth Berry is the one behind this seizure of our utilities. He continues to spew misinformation aimed at getting the general public in a tizzy over CMP/Versant. They did an absolutely stellar job during this past storm and Seth is feeling the pressure to take them down a few pegs when they couldn't have responded any better.

I received five emails from CMP over the weekend keeping me updated about the storm response. Somehow Seth believes his $13.5 billion dollar pet project for government-power will function better than this. He's sorely mistaken and Mainers see through this.