Maine Objects to Paying for Electric Upgrades in other New England States. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 22, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Deborah Turcotte, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 22--BANGOR, Maine--Maine is fighting an uphill battle to ensure that electricity ratepayers here are not forced to pay too much for the construction of new transmission lines elsewhere in New England.

About 80 percent of the membership of the New England Power Pool, an organization that includes about 200 power generators, transmission companies and others, wants to spr...

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