Unfortunately for CMP, perception is reality. This is especially true when it comes to referenda. CMP has an uphill battle to fight and they are the lowest ranked utility in the entire country. They are currently spending millions on astroturf campaigns, but they need rate increases to improve the grid? Best of luck to them, they're going to need it.

When people add porches on they don't want to block the view from the second floor, nor the one from the first. So they need flat-ish roofs.

Hardware stores only order a small number, and when they run out, they're out. If you're on the fence, get one, and stash it away.

Says who? Because I have seen christmas tree farms and they are not diverse.

How? Who owns it? These are the types of questions accountants can help you answer.

TEN CORDS OF WOOD! Yikes.

Must be convenient to just invent your own facts.

Well no, landholding and tax cheating goes hand in hand. At least when you own estates that can be seen from space. Nobody needs that much land, break up the manors.

In virtially every case, the regulators cut the increase down to a fraction of what the utility asks for. This means the utility will not be able to invest in the grid to improve service.

Over time yes of course it does

Less corporate greed? And I mean comparison doesn’t help. I’d still be complaining if the prices in other states were 10x more

Get the part number and order a spare online, hang it in your garage. And some shear pins.

Two is one and one is none.

Except that transmission line that they could start building in Vermont - who has welcomed it - is too expensive. They would rather force us into something the state as a whole has said we don’t don’t want. Because dollah dollah bill yo.

Again, fuck em.

I …. have never heard of these before. i find the concept fascinating.

You believe that a monopolized company, owned by international corporations based out of this country are actually doing anything even remotely ethical and for the good of the people they have a monopoly over?

And you think we’re ignorant.

want to make good money and work from home?

step one... learn autocad or some other cad/engineering design software.

step two... find an architects firm who needs someone to make changes to plans for them.

my old high school buddy who's an architect in florida says people pay over 100k a year to people to modify cad drawings for them on short notice/quick turn around.

The dam is already built in Canada, neither of those things are happening in Maine

Do you think planting trees just magically brings back all the biodiversity?

the steeper the pitch, the better off you are. definitely rake the eves as far up as you can reach. i have a ranch and i try to keep at least the lower half of the roof cleared.

If mass wants renewable energy so bad, they can damn up there own rivers, and put wind turbines on there own mountains. Instead they pay us penny’s on the dollar to do it, and then say how wonderful of a thing they are doing. Fuck em

Why is it that the most ignorant people are the least likely to accept that they were wrong because of a lack of information

Ahh yes I too hate CMP so much I support fossil fuel companies maintaing their monopoly and gouging us.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist

lol not even close to reality. The logging/paper product companies out west were always amenable to outdoorsmen. As they sold off parcels to private land owners, many of those private owners have closed off access in many ways. Look up the Wilkes brothers from Texas and the shit they’ve done in Idaho