As construction continues on the CMP corridor, Maine’s Total Coverage is asking how tensions between the United States and Canada could impact that project.The corridor is expected to bring hydro power from Canada through Maine to Massachusetts. Maine has very aggressive decarbonization requirements. And that was seen as a large carbon-free power source. That would be 24 over seven, not subject as much to the whims of the sun and the wind and the rest of it,” Dan Dolan of the New England Generators Association said.Not only does Canada have a carbon-free power source, but there’s also a cost benefit to it.Energy has been removed from President Donald Trump’s tariff talks, but industry experts like Dolan are still monitoring this project.”However, energy is also the source of greatest leverage from Canada economically to the United States,” Dolan said.The corridor isn’t expected to bring power to Maine, but Maine does get about 30% of its electricity from Canada, as well as the majority of the state’s home heating oil, gasoline and jet fuel.”We are interconnected and therefore interdependent,” John Gulliver, president of the New England Canada Business Council, said.He added that while countries often revisit trade, he didn’t expect this.”The repetition of tariffs being opposed and suspended and opposed and suspended and the high level of rhetoric is surprising to me,” he said.
As construction continues on the CMP corridor, Maine’s Total Coverage is asking how tensions between the United States and Canada could impact that project.
The corridor is expected to bring hydro power from Canada through Maine to Massachusetts.
Maine has very aggressive decarbonization requirements. And that was seen as a large carbon-free power source. That would be 24 over seven, not subject as much to the whims of the sun and the wind and the rest of it,” Dan Dolan of the New England Generators Association said.
Not only does Canada have a carbon-free power source, but there’s also a cost benefit to it.
Energy has been removed from President Donald Trump’s tariff talks, but industry experts like Dolan are still monitoring this project.
“However, energy is also the source of greatest leverage from Canada economically to the United States,” Dolan said.
The corridor isn’t expected to bring power to Maine, but Maine does get about 30% of its electricity from Canada, as well as the majority of the state’s home heating oil, gasoline and jet fuel.
“We are interconnected and therefore interdependent,” John Gulliver, president of the New England Canada Business Council, said.
He added that while countries often revisit trade, he didn’t expect this.
“The repetition of tariffs being opposed and suspended and opposed and suspended and the high level of rhetoric is surprising to me,” he said.