Right??? It's like how fucking dare you have a functioning understanding of our government and request the public utilities commission do it's job instead of screaming into the sky about having a co-operative owned by 1.5M people - especially when this is a purple state and the results of removing a nonpartisan commission of professionals would be catastrophic if we went through 4-12 years of far-right ruling to completely defund the grid (looking at you, Texas).

It's like saying the only option to cleaning out a messy garage is to burn it down and build new.

I commented this in a different thread about CMP but the tinfoil hat conspiracy thinking about "CMP punishing us" has got to stop. It distracts us from being level-headed and rational about a way forward. It's just not the case! I don't need to clarify the rate increase because everyone else already has noted it's on the supply side but I am just so sad to see people continue to get so distracted by their feelings about CMP which don't match up with reality.

Check with both your bank and cmp account to see how your automatic payments are set up. You might have it set up for automatic bill pay through your bank, in addition to having set up automatic payments on cmp's website, causing a double payment authorization

Lol, didn't they start this at least a year ago?

Why does renovation take over 3 years? You could build an entirely new museum in that time.

I hate that these ballot issues get turned into emotional ones "are you mad at CMP?" is how people will vote which should be irrelevant. Also, quite frankly, I have a feeling most Mainers don't give a shit whether or not they own the means of production. Most people just want to see lower rates at the end of the day. Is Pine Tree Power gonna give us that? I don't feel optimistic about it, personally, and I think everyone underestimates the total cost as well as the time the transfer will take, as there's a 100% chance it will end up in the courts. It kind of feels like a lose lose situation all around which makes me feel like our best bet is trying to get the PUC to be a little more functional as a regulatory body so that we can work with CMP to keep things working for everyone. But I am probably alone in this and can now look forward to people yelling at me for being some CMP shill or something. Which brings me back to my first point... we have got to remove our emotions from the equation and think logically and practically. Not that that will EVER happen, but it sure would be nice.

I thought the old Katahdin Iron Works and Ore Mountain was pretty cool. I’m a nerd though so I don’t know how cool it’s considered.

You lost me at "aesthetically important". If people are too inconvenienced by power outages I say we tear their houses down and send 'em packing to some nice urban community out west.

Also, if you think that "10-20 mature trees" is the only casualty of your developed residential lot I don't think you fully understand what this place looked like prior to European colonization.

Let's just agree that the people complaining about CMP are fucking insufferable and of limited value to our species moving forward.

Sorry I just can't get on board with the constant conspiratorial thinking that CMP punished us for voting against the corridor -- I'm not trying to defend them either but that's just a little too tinfoil hat for me. Legally they can't -- despite what we think they are held to certain standards and the PUC has to approve rate hikes (I know, I know "the PUC is in bed with CMP" etc) so it would probably do us all a lot better to think about this situation a little more rationally.

The blockhouse in New Gloucester on Gloucester Hill Rd just north of the cemetery. Truly unappreciated.

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I was expounding on what you said, actually.

The construction of my house in 1947 probably required 10-20 mature trees… so two trees a decade. I’m well aware of the environmental footprint there, which is why I try to preserve the structure by maintaining it as close to it’s original form as possible. Also aware of the fact that I burn 2 cords of wood a year for heat, which I harvest sustainably from the woodlot on my property that I’m fortunate to own and care for.

And I’m aware that forests have been decimated in the past and are at a tipping point now that requires a different way of thinking than was historically done. The decimation I’m talking about is the scenario where shade-providing, aesthetically important street trees are removed to save people the inconvenience of an occasional power outage.

Same with Fort Popham. Pemaquid is smaller but still one of my fave places.

It's not! And I will try to explain you why. Your response is a classic one, that's why I was curious to hear it first. And I get it. Most people work their daily grind, thinking one day they would be filthy rich and get out of that. Capitalism is brilliant that way, make other people work to death, based on a dream. And if suddenly people can't become a billionaire for some reason, that would be the killing of that dream. And hope is important to get by.

But, being rich and being a Bilionaire is two different things. To help you visualize 1 million seconds is 12 days, 1 billion second is 31 years. It would take me, with a very good salary if you consider the American average, 6 THOUSAND years of hard work without spending a single dime to reach a billion, but only 8 years to reach a million. And although a million doesn't have the same power as it used to I'd gladly retire now, in my mid 40s, if I had a couple of that in my savings.

Nobody makes a billion by chance, and even a lottery billionaire, which is extremely rare, won't be able to hold that money for very long if they are honest folks. Because people are only able to keep their billionaire status by exploiting other people, evading taxes, buying political influence, and benefiting from inside trading information. And that's why they shouldn't exist.

If billionaires didn't exist there would still be rich people and poor people, there'd still be inequality, but it would be just a little harder for a very few group of people to keep control over the world.

You realize I'm not suggesting we do this right? My point is that even the "foolproof" solution would not appease the folks here whining about how self preservation isn't their responsibility. Obviously they should be prepared or suck it up and STFU.

Also FWIW, our entire presence in this state required the "decimation of millions of trees". So as long as you're living in a wood house, in a lumber state, you may want to check how much toity you've got in your hoity there...

Also, "decimate" mean "to reduce by ten percent".

I think you have far to much faith in "the maps" i know peolle who make maps. The records in this state are incomplete, inaccurate, missing or never existed. It is definitely not laid out clearly.

And what would you propose is a solution?

Calvary Cemetery in South Portland is good too. It is where the Irish were buried.

I actually set up a 2nd bank account (using Chime) strictly to pay my CMP bill, just to keep them the hell away from my primary account. The account only has enough to cover the bill + 20 bucks or so in it, that way if they fuck up it’s not affecting all my money.

The old timers here in Orland largely worked at the paper mill in neighboring Bucksport. Many families pooled together and scraped up money to by land and make seasonal camps on Toddy pond, Craig’s pond, Alamoosoock lake, Heart pond, Jacob Buck’s pond in Bucksport just to name a few. Mostly generationally owned which now seem to be being snapped up for incredible sums of money by folks from away.

True, to be fair the shipyard in Halifax essentially didn't exist up until about 10 years ago, when the Irving's won contract to essentially rebuild the entire Canadian naval fleet over the next 20-30 years. It's crazy what they have built on the Halifax waterfront. So essentially they currently only have one customer for this particular shipbuilding plant, but they do have other shipbuilding plants.

Trickle down capitalism has failed that's why there shouldn't be billionaires someone who has that much money should be deemed a national security risk they can buy politicians lobby for whatever they want whether it be to keep minimum wage down or to keep cigarettes on shelves billionaires are for the most part are turning this world into a coffin

ok, I guess I am not being clear enough, I apologize if that is the case. I am not debating about 2022 or pervious gas prices, I know those are high. I am saying the price is dropping right now, as we speak, currently, in the present. However the price for the standard is locked in from 2021/2022. So as the price falls for natural gas across the board, right now, Mainers will be stuck with one of the highest electricity rates they have had until the standard offer is renegotiated for 2024 (unless natural gas should increase again in 2023 , who knows with world events). Sheesh.

Correct. The $8.2m property that sold in Orland was owned by Penny Candy Cove, LLC

Castine and the Wilson Museum. And for funsies, read Redcoats at Castine by Arthur Patterson, for a fictional account of the British occupation of Castine. (Like Kenneth Roberts's Arundel, but not as good.)

This is why I still send them a check every month. I do not trust them to do this correctly on their own