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Times Record Letters to the editor: Cost of Pine Tree Power

For all the ballot initiatives I’ve voted on over the years, nothing has been this expensive or this consequential. Tell your legislator, ...
Kennebec Journal Pine Tree Power not telling truth about prices

The only way to stop this madness is to vote “no” on Pine Tree Power in November.
Republican Journal Journal Letter: We can’t afford Pine Tree Power

As I said at the outset, too expensive, too risky — we can’t afford Pine Tree Power.
Courier-Gazette Courier letter: Electric bills and utility referendum

Pine Tree Power supporters are trying to trick voters into borrowing more than $10 billion to acquire Versant and Central Maine Power and ...
AP Pine Tree Power supporter seeks to stop public vote on debt

A supporter of a proposal to create a consumer-owned electric utility is suing to stop a separate popular vote that could stymie the effort ...
Ellsworth American Transmission line referendum is misleading

Unless Pine Tree Power’s proposal includes a brand new way to generate electricity (and it doesn’t), any promises of lower rates ...
Bangor Daily News Letter: Consumer-owned utility could be a disaster

I think it’s a multibillion-dollar disaster waiting to happen. Think about it — decisions impacting just about every home and business ...
Kennebec Journal Politicians at Pine Tree Power selling us something

I suppose it’s not surprising Pine Tree Power’s rhetoric is purposely misleading. Politicians do that whenever they want to sell us an ...
Bangor Daily News Letter: Pine Tree Power idea would be a waste

Under the Pine Tree Power proposal to take over Maine’s two largest electric utilities, in 10 years we could end up billions of dollars ...
Livermore Falls Advertiser Pine Tree Power will risk all of this

Pine Tree Power will risk all of this – reliability, resiliency, safety and jobs – by putting self-serving politicians in control of ...
Portland Press Herald Letter to the editor: Pine Tree Power will hinder needed grid planning

Instead, Pine Tree Power will bring a decade of delays and legal drama, politicians and their cronies, frustration and debt in the ...
Kennebec Journal Lineworker: Pine Tree Power would be a disaster

If Pine Tree Power seizes Central Maine Power and Versant, politicians will be in full control of the new government-owned utility and ...