The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said Monday that the downed trees must be out of the corridor before winter, along with the mats that were placed to support construction cranes. If the trees and mats aren’t removed in time, the project will no longer be compliance with its permit.

More than 36,000 crane mats need to be removed and more than 20 miles of vegetation must be removed or chipped and spread, according to the DEP.

Clean-up of one section was due to start Monday, and the clean-up of the final section is due to be completed by Dec. 14.

The DEP’s order said that requiring NECEC to remove the mats and the cut vegetation is narrowly tailored to those two tasks and doesn’t allow NECEC to restart construction work for the transmission line.

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That is a fuck ton of mats to pull.

No worries. They'll get it done and the rate payers will foot the bill,

Hmm anyway to make a bill that would exempt the tax payers from paying for thier blunder?

What blunder? The taxpayers are the one who with the partially illegal referendum caused this problem.... Thing would be built and done by now without the stop work orders ..

Found the shill