NECEC Transmission LLC v. Bureau of Parks & Lands

In a challenge by the developers of the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project to a ballot question approved by Maine voters in 2021 that banned construction of certain electric transmission lines, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court remanded the case to the State’s Business and Consumer Docket for consideration of whether the developers had acquired vested rights to construct the project. The NECEC project is intended to carry hydroelectric power generated in Québec through Maine into Massachusetts. The court held that the ballot initiative would violate due process under the Maine Constitution to the extent that the developers had acquired vested rights.