Baring an act of god or a well meaning arsonist it's still on western ave

It's not just northern Maine. There's one every other town between Lewiston Auburn and Augusta.

One in Greene, one on Monmouth, one in Manchester.

We live in the most heavily forested state in the country, outages aren't predictable but they are inevitable.

Yeah why mine in the richest parts of the world where environmental protection laws are strong and prevention and cleanup technology is easily accessible when you can do it in poor countries where none of those things are true but no one in rich countries gives a shit about what happens to the people there

I fucking hate NIMBYS so much

CMP's billing system seems to be both understaffed and way out of date and they just pass as much of fixing it as possible to the customer and the customers banks.

You were just saying that CMP was building windmills and dams in Maine to provide power to Massachusetts, you don't get to pretend you didn't say that

I think that Mills forced them to give us a better deal yes.

That being said I don't think CMP is benevolent, I think that the fossil fuel companies funding the opposition fo to the corridor are malevolent and are acting because they don't want more green energy competing with their oil and natural gas plants in New England including Maine.

And between the two I think Texas based fossil fuel companies are more malevolent than Avangrid yes.

I'm not pro CMP, I'm anti fossil fuel industry

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

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.

They don't set supply prices, but you're right there is a group with a major interest in limiting competition and price gouging, the natural gas and fossil fuel companies that funded the anti corridor campaign.

Remember when they ran ads saying that the corridor deal "might save Mainers as little as cents per month"?

The local co ops aren't the ones generating power with natural gas or fossil fuels. Kind of like that hydro power that the corridor would have delivered that the fossil fuel companies currently gouging us funded the campaign to block

CMP sucks at a lot of things, which means that people assume they suck at everything, including things that either aren't under their control or that they're actually pretty decent at. It bugs me but I understand it.

Maine is at like 70% of the power it generates is green, but we're a relatively small part of the New England grid in both use and generation.

Pretty similar, but watch out for the bears in rural New Hampshire

You are right that outside of emergency relief there aren't many short term actions taken by governments in regards to housing, because all of the short term options that governments have tried have risks of backfiring both short and long term.

I guess that would depend on what you consider long term, because things like zoning, environmental protections (of any kind), fishery and wildlife management, infrastructure, tax credits aimed at promoting particular kinds of buildings products vehicles home upgrades (heat pumps extra insulation windows that retain more heat) etc are all what I'd call long term just off the top of my head.

Yes government policy needs to balance short and long term interests, but the biggest issue is that attempts at short term reductions in costs of housing frequently backfire and either don't help short term and hurt long term or just straight up hurt both. This shit should have been addressed 5 to 10 years ago, but the best that can realistically be done is start on it now. (And it doesn't take 10 to 20 years for newly built housing to impact housing, nor does it take 10 to 20 years to build new housing).

The issue with that is that short term measures to bring down on existing housing costs (rent control, limiting short term rentals second homes etc) discourages construction and frequently leads to landlords going condo potential driving rent up or at least availability down while also preventing the long term cost reduction that more construction brings.

The best way to bring down rent prices is to build more housing

Yeah this one is spreading almost entirely by wild birds instead of flock to flock so there's a real risk of it jumping all over the place

There are not only dead chickens from this, but dead ducks and Montana just found grizzly bears that have it, this is a public health thing not an economic thing

It's not even 25% inflation, last I saw something like 53 million hens have died or been culled, the last time we had a outbreak like this it was more like 50 million by the time it was under control which it isn't yet.

I looked again and it's up to 58 million

Fuck tariffs, we should be creating options other than abusing poor countries and throwing CEOs in jail for not using those options.