This column is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Maine Labor Climate Council on the intersection of labor and climate in Maine.
When it comes to hurricane season, September and October have become the new August, with stronger and larger storms later and later in the season that create destruction and disruptions to normal everyday life. Fiona passed to our east with some minor inconvenience to Maine and New England; Canada was not so lucky. Ian ravaged Florida, reformed into a hurricane, and made a second landfall in the Carolinas.
And the list goes on: Hurricane Bob, the 1998 ice storm, Superstorm Sandy, and countless others just as destructive but not given names. For more than 30 years I have had the privilege to be an overhead electrical lineworker, and these storms are personal to me. After destructive storms like these pass through, lineworkers like me are always on…
Upgrading Maine’s grid is key to securing a clean energy future – Maine Beacon
