Maine voters reject transmission line: Bangor Daily News, CTV. Hydro Quebec has a deal to supply Massachusetts with hydropower, and the transmission line would run through Maine - but a combination of environmentalists and energy competitors campaigned against it, and in a referendum, close to 60% of voters opposed it. Matthew Yglesias on the need for long-distance transmission lines. America needs more interregional electric lines. "Sheldon Whitehouse and Mike Quigley have a plan to get it done."
George Hoberg recently published a book on the subject of resistance to both fossil-fuel and clean-energy infrastructure. The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis. Free online. Video from a 2018 lecture by Hoberg.
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