The Bangor Daily News posts an article on a forum held in Brewer by the Maine Forest Products Council, Maine Pulp and Paper Association, Forest Resources Association, and the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine. Eliot Cutler was joined by Republican candidate Paul LePage. Cutler outlined plans to encourage economic development by lowering energy costs for small business.
[Cutler discussed plans for an] Energy Finance Authority that would negotiate low-cost deals with Canadian power producers and work with the private sector to expand Maine’s energy infrastructure. In particular, Cutler said the state needs to expand natural gas lines up the major river corridors.
“When we do that we are going to reawaken the mills all over the state of Maine and we can do that with an Energy Finance Authority,” Cutler said. “And that’s an awful lot more sensible public investment than plastering the state with Pine Tree Zones.”
You can read the full article here.