Maine transmission line entangled by conflicting claims on emissions

Energy News Network: Opponents of a proposed hydropower transmission line from Canada through Maine to Massachusetts are calling for the states to commission an independent study to determine if the 145-mile line would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Critics of the planned New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) line say it will do little to lower global gas greenhouse emissions because it will merely divert clean power that would have otherwise gone to other customers.

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