CHAMPLAIN WIND v. BD. OF ENV'L PROTECTION

Docket No. BEP-14-291.

129 A.3d 279 (2015)

2015 ME 156

CHAMPLAIN WIND, LLC v. BOARD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 3, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juliet T. Browne, Esq. , (orally), Scott D. Anderson, Esq. , and Gordon R. Smith, Esq. , Verrill Dana, LLP, Portland, for appellant Champlain Wind, LLC.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Margaret A. Bensinger , Asst. Atty. Gen., (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Environmental Protection.

Frederick F. Costlow, Esq. , Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger, Bangor, for amicus curiae Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed.

Sean Mahoney, Esq. , Conservation Law Foundation, Portland, for amicus curiae Conservation Law Foundation.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, and CLIFFORD, JJ.


[¶ 1] Champlain Wind, LLC, appeals from a decision of the Board of Environmental Protection in which the Board considered and balanced competing statutorily defined policies applicable to wind energy projects in Maine. The applicable statutes establish the dual policies of expediting ...

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