MJ Bouchard

Climbing rocks and visiting lighthouses somewhere along the New England coast. Here to understand and voice my opinions on local interests and politics.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@RepReaganPaul This is such a horrible misuse of taxpayer funds. I am outraged. I would much prefer that money go toward energy production! Especially if it's not expensive overseas oil!

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@RepReaganPaul Interesting that you're commenting on this and yet a very recent fire related to natural gas and you said nothing. You're just cherry picking things to fit your narrative and we see through it.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@mebeacon The politicians love to get angry and yet they act like they can't do anything about this, when if they only acknowledge the unregulated supply side of the bill as a place to make immediate changes, we'd see that reflected on our bills.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@TheMaineWire People forget that CMP isn't some entity -- it's real people working at that company. Our neighbors. Members of our communities.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME Oof, violence is never the answer. We're all having a hard time with the high cost of living right now but we're not all resorting to bomb threats!

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@RepReaganPaul How does this help Mainers? This is just part of your political agenda, getting people angry about something (that's misinformation at that).

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME A sad story, we're lucky it wasn't worse. That being said this caused service disruptions for people. People can feel how they feel about CMP, but shooting up a substation is not acceptable!

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@TheMaineWire Not surprising and it makes a lot of sense in the end. A tough call for Mills, but the right one.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@TheMaineWire Mills would have signed off on the bill if the amendment to carve out an exemption for Jay hadn't been killed. Her veto makes sense to me.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME Every day I regret the one time I voted for her years ago.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@aseitzwald Thank you for laying out the reality here. The national attention to the veto has been frustrating because there's no interest in understanding the nuance and how this would have screwed over the town of Jay, which is already economically depressed. Mills made the right call.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@aseitzwald @MaineVillager Worth pointing out that Platner has not said anything, likely because he too would have been forced to make a similar decision the second the legislature killed the amendment that would have exempted the Jay project.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@TheMaineWire Everyone would have been happy with the moratorium (including Mills) if Jay had been exempt. They've been planning on building one in the vacant mill for two years now, looking forward to the 800-1000 jobs construction would create and the 150 permanent jobs after that.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WMTWTV Mills did the right thing here, even though so many people will just read the headline and not dig deeper. If the moratorium had made the planned for center in Jay (for two years now!) exempt, she would have signed off on it. She was honoring the commitments to that town.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@67nf20 @WGME I beg to differ. She's actually protecting a community with this veto. the town of Jay has been planning on the thousands of jobs the construction of this data center will create for two years now. The people there need this work.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME The problem is that our grid requires so much maintenance on top of infrastructure upgrades and the constantly rising demand. Spending more money is inevitable and the longer we put it off the worse it will get.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@RepReaganPaul As someone constantly pushing nuclear you know well that investment in energy projects is going to cost money. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Oil and gas projects cost money as well! If anything we should be ensuring we have a diverse power supply and invest in all.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME Whatever gets us to energy independence is something I can get behind. It's painful to see oil and gas prices go up right now, knowing it's being shipped from overseas when there are so many resources in our backyard that we're not using.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@mainemonitor We need to diversify our power sources and at the same time regulate their costs.

[MJ Bouchard @bouchard_mj]

@WGME These scammers need to be held accountable but I am glad that CMP is doing what they can to make sure people are aware this is going on, and that it is NOT CMP.