If I’m reading the Waterville Morning Sentinel correctly, it looks as though the Nature Conservancy plans to remove more of the dams to allow more trash fish like alewives and lamprey eels. That means the lobstermen will have to drive even further to get their alewives when they are already stressed for time and money.

What is cleaner and cheaper than a river flowing down through the state creating electricity? Will Central Maine Power now have another reason to ask for rates hikes? That company and the Public Utilities Commission seem to forget that businesses are not necessarily guaranteed a profit.

My average power bill has skyrocketed from $75 to $90 per month to $242 to $352 per month. My power usage has gone down, not up. I bought a gas stove and we turn off switches when not in use, yet it didn’t gain me $1 in savings.

When the Sebasticook Dam was removed, it caused property owners in Winslow to have a real nightmare. The landowners no longer enjoy the once-beautiful scenery of their riverfront property.

How will it affect the good-paying jobs at the Sappi mill in Skowhegan? The buyer says the dam won’t be removed until it has figured out a way to meet the mill’s needs. Only time will tell.

We have seen what the removal of the dams below Waterville has done; now we wait for the new nightmare coming up.

Louise Marcoux Bowker
Waterville