Nobody likes to be held up in the public prints as “liars and propagandists.” So it is with some regret that we write in response to the recent letter by Sandi Howard, the principal officer of a political action committee funded by fossil fuel interests to oppose the Clean Energy Corridor, the largest clean energy project in New England (“Let’s close big election loophole,” Jan. 5).

Howard attacks the motives of the only side in the debate that relied on the voluminous and reasoned conclusions of impartial referees who carefully reviewed the project. Five public agencies conducted prolonged, detailed, and open reviews of the evidence. Arguments opposing the corridor were carefully considered.

Howard substitutes insults and name-calling for reasoned debate on the facts. A practice shared by her many allies in the aptly named “conflict industry.”

She also omits mentioning that the PAC she directs has received two-thirds of its revenues from an entity entirely funded by two of the nation’s worst carbon polluters (Vistra Corp. and NextEra Energy, Inc.) and one of the worst in Maine (Calpine Corp.).

Most damning, however, is Howard’s effort to criminalize the exercise of First Amendment free speech rights by those with whom she disagrees. Would she close the so-called “loophole” to her own funders too?

This Maine Guide seeks to lead all Maine people astray.

Lloyd C. Irland

Wayne

Walter Anderson

North Yarmouth

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