{"id":30065,"date":"2023-11-05T22:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30065"},"modified":"2023-11-05T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T03:35:02","slug":"growing-u-s-anger-with-electric-utilities-finds-its-epicenter-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30065","title":{"rendered":"Growing U.S. anger with electric utilities finds its epicenter in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/VAPU5XMAVDKMZQLBB5G2PRILEE_size-normalized.jpg&amp;w=1440&amp;impolicy=high_res\" width=\"209\" height=\"139\" \/>Maine residents will vote Tuesday on a ballot measure that would dissolve its investor-owned utilities and replace them with a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/11\/04\/maine-power-utilities-ballot\/\">Growing U.S. anger with electric utilities finds its epicenter in Maine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>give nebraska has been public owned for a while, it could be used to see how things compare to private for-profit utilities.  maybe good government means providing basic services like electricty, water, sewage, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Publicly owned utilities are not a new idea. They are operating in 2,000 communities, providing electricity to 49 million people, according to the American Public Power Association. But they are generally small outfits, serving a city or county as opposed to an entire state. An <strong><em>exception is Nebraska, where there have not been any investor-owned utilities since 1946<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine residents will vote Tuesday on a ballot measure that would dissolve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[669,25,718,140],"class_list":["post-30065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-electricty","tag-energy","tag-maine","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30068,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions\/30068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}