letter to the editor

Are we cash-cows for an emir?

Mon, 05/29/2023 - 3:30pm

Dear Editor:

If someone were to prove to you that $255,000,000 of Central Maine Power’s 2021 profits left Maine and the United States, to enrich Iberdrola — a Spanish multinational corporation whose largest shareholder is the Qatar Investment Authority, a non-transparent, sovereign-wealth fund controlled by the emir of Qatar to manage oil and natural gas surpluses — would you consider voting Yes on this November’s ballot initiative to replace CMP and Versant with our very own, consumer-owned utility, Pine Tree Power?

Find out more at www.ourpowermaine.org

Bill Hammond

Barters Island