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WILTON The Planning Board on Thursday evening approved Central Maine Power’s New England Clean Energy Connect pole construction application, adding four conditions to the permit. All members of the board approved the permit except Lisa Small who abstained.
The permit allows the company to build five high-transmission poles across two miles of agricultural fields from McCrillis Corner Road to Wilton Road/Route 156. The poles will be part of CMP’s 145-mile corridor for transmitting Hydro-Québec energy from the province of Québec, Canada to Massachusetts.
The red line indicates where the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor would cross through Farmington into Wilton over nearly two miles of forested and agricultural land.
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The red line indicates where the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor would cross through Wilton into Chesterville. The two green areas labeled as WET-114-01 and WET114-02 are wetland areas that the high-transmission line would cross over.
Screenshot of NECEC map
WILTON The Planning Board on Thursday reviewed the New England Clean Energy Connect’s site plan application relative to the Wilton’s Energy/Transportation Conduits Ordinance and accepted that it was complete.
The NECEC application requests the approval to erect five high-transmission poles in Wilton as part of Central Maine Power Co.’s 145-mile corridor for transporting Hydro-Québec energy from the province of Québec, Canada to Massachusetts.