How can you help?
There's actually many ways you can help protect our farms and forests!
Educate yourself on buried HVDC. It is comparable in cost, probably less expensive in maintenance, and preserves our environment. This is the way forward to protect our fields and forests.
Become a member of Preserve Rural Maine
Write a public comment on the PUC website. The docket number for this case is 2021-00369. You will need this number to post a comment.
This is the link to post a comment.
This is the link to review other comments.Write a courteous and professional letter to the editor at Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, the Maine Monitor, or any other newspaper which is reporting in a biased way about this project
Call and write your State Senator and State Representative
Share articles and memes on social media and with your friends via email
Contact any local organization of which you are a member: hunting, fishing, forestry, environmental, farming: ask them to come forward in support of buried HVDC lines
Write a testimonial, or make a testimonial video (preferably in horizontal aspect ratio) - let us know so we can share. Things to mention, in a polite and professional manner:
how will this proposed transmission corridor impact your health, culture, economics, and livelihood
how your communications with LS Power and your state reps have been going
We are making compilation videos: send us snapshots or smartphone videos- preferably in horizontal aspect ratio, along with details about where the shot was taken and permission for us to edit and re-use.
protectmainefarmland@proton.me
Photograph the natural beauty unspoiled by above-ground transmission lines, such as the following image, or here’s another example of a video clip.
GIS Files
Here is the GIS file in gpx format which you can view in On X Maps
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oABgaVxNd5Ct11uZhbfY7ckgHvx-ysG/view?usp=drive_link
Here is the GIS file in kml format which can be viewed in Google Earth
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1wRJ2pTqVQirBtU1wgKu-LP_H52C3SF/view?usp=drive_link