How can you help?

There's actually many ways you can help protect our farms and forests!

  • Become a member of Preserve Rural Maine. This is the only organization I know of which is actively working to protect the rural environment against industrial scale infrastructure, big business, and the perverse incentives of investment tax credits for renewable energy projects. (1)

  • 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

  • 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.

(1) The King Pine wind energy project is a 175,000 acre project, with a projected $2 billion cost. The developer could get an investment tax credit of 30%, i.e. $600 million https://windexchange.energy.gov/projects/tax-credits “To receive the full production tax credit amount of 2.6 cents per kilowatt-hour or full investment tax credit of 30%, projects over 1 megawatt must satisfy apprenticeship and prevailing wage requirements. Facilities of under 1 MW are exempt from these requirements. The base credit amount for larger projects that do not meet the wage and apprenticeship requirements is 20% of the full credit amount.”