{"id":208086,"date":"2022-07-11T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208086"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:29:23","slug":"the-other-side-of-climate-lawfare-maine-hydropower-project-sparked-a-100m-hoohah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208086","title":{"rendered":"The other side of climate \u201alawfare\u2018: Maine hydropower project sparked a $100m \u201ahoohah\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Court actions by so-called green groups are commonplace, but there\u2019s legal pushback from another quarter \u2013 against intrusive electricity generation schemes favoured by climate obsessives, with a perceived lack of benefits. Not everyone is buying the endless climate fear campaign.<\/em>
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A proposal to transport clean hydropower from Canada to the state of Maine has created enough \u201choohah\u201d to launch a fierce court battle \u2013 possibly signalling trouble for the future of green energy projects across the US, says BBC News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) was supposed to be an industry-leading project, transporting 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts across 145 miles (233 km) of transmission line, and eliminating over three million metric tonnes of carbon emissions every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $1bn (\u00a3840m) project, funded by utility company Hydro-Quebec and Central Maine Power (CMP), which is owned by the Spanish energy giant Avangrid, received final approvals, including a Presidential Permit from the US Department of Energy. Construction began in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the hydropower project could be dead in the water, after a majority Mainers voted to cancel it last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legality of that referendum, as well as the lease for a one-mile stretch of public lands, is currently before the Maine Supreme Court, which could issue its decision any day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the court sides with opponents, and the corridor is not allowed to proceed as planned, Hydro-Quebec could lose out on $10bn in future revenue from this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could also signal trouble for the future of other clean energy projects in the US, at a time when many states are trying aggressively to green their power grid to offset the effects of climate change and rising fuel costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t succeed if every wind project, every solar energy project, every hydro project\u2026 is going to become challenged,\u201d said Orlando Delogu, a professor emeritus at the University of Maine School of Law who supports the corridor and has worked as an advisor in the fight over the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the project received pushback from the start. Tom Saviello, a former state senator, got involved with the opposition in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor that kind of deal it wasn\u2019t worth it. I wanted Maine to be treated right and it weren\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re giving up a lot for getting nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Maine \u2013 a state where some say you\u2019re not considered a local unless you were born there \u2013 he was wary of a project that seemed chiefly geared to benefit a Canadian utility and the state\u2019s southern neighbour of Massachusetts, which signed a 20-year contract with NECEC\u2019s backers to receive the bulk of the power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also in the news:<\/em>
Court blocks Pennsylvania\u2019s carbon emissions plan<\/a>
By ASSOCIATED PRESS, 8 July 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet Reggie:<\/em>
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative<\/a> \u2013 \u2018the first mandatory market-based program to reduce some greenhouse gas emissions by the United States.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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via Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0July 11, 2022, by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe other side of climate ‘lawfare’: Maine hydropower project sparked a $100m ‘hoohah’<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Court actions by so-called green groups are commonplace, but there\u2019s legal pushback from another quarter \u2013 against intrusive electricity generation schemes favoured by climate obsessives, with a perceived lack of benefits. 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