THE QUESTION

I want to ask your position on the new push for nuclear power. Given your history, I know you are environmentally sensitive. I am, I guess, looking for some assurance that you won’t support nuclear power and that Maine will continue to be a nuclear-free state. Thank you.

- Karen Mayer

ELIOT’S ANSWER

Hi Karen,

Thank you for your question.

I do care greatly about the environment, and have spent much of my career working on environmental issues, going back to my days with Sen. Muskie when I helped to write the Clean Air and Water Acts.

I do not support nuclear power in Maine.

I do believe, however, that we must lower the cost of living and doing business in Maine and that lower cost electricity is one of the major ways we can accomplish that.

I want to create Maine Energy Resources, a public power authority that will use low-cost capital to help entrepreneurs develop clean, renewable energy to be used in Maine, creating more jobs and higher incomes for Maine people.

Eliot