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It does forclose most other usage opportunities for the land needed.

• woodruffw 4y ago
  Sure, but that doesn't equate to suffering. Presumably there's some deal that Maine would find amendable. (Besides: Maine is has a heavily forested, virtually unpopulated interior. It's not clear to me that a HVDC line would represent a significant potential usage cost.)
  • dahfizz 4y ago
    The people of Maine would disagree (obviously, since they did). Forests don't exist to build over. New Englanders like their forests.
    • woodruffw 4y ago
      These aren’t incompatible positions: New York is both densely forested, and has an extensive interstate electricity network running through it. You wouldn’t know it unless you went looking for the lines (which I have!). (Nothing exists “to be built over.” The only question is whether we can build a thing and whether it’s appropriate to do so.)
• Analemma_ 4y ago
  Have you been to the part of Maine the power line would have run through? There is nothing there. For much of the line's proposed length there weren't any small towns within dozens of miles.
• freeone3000 4y ago
  ...does it? The RMCC runs right through a few towns on the Quebec side. It's a power line, I don't see what the big deal is.