Maine voters turned down an attempt to oust the state’s corporate-owned electric utilities among several ballot initiatives Tuesday, and approved one to stop.
The referendum, known as Question 3, would have set in motion a process for a newly-formed consumer owned utility the Pine Tree Power Company to buy out CMP and Versant and provide electricity to most of Maine
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