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While the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (NH SEC) had an obligation to weigh four clearly stated statutory factors during its hearings and its deliberations on the Northern Pass, it only had to find the applicant lacking in one of those four factors in order to deny the application.
The application failed because Eversource and its experts were not credible when they asserted that the project would have no adverse effect on virtually anything.
Developer Eversource claimed state regulators made legal errors requiring the court to overturn the $1.6 billion project’s denial.
The CLF’s appeal centers on concrete mattresses that will be placed over the three cables to be buried under Little Bay near the shores of Newington and Durham.
Signs for New Hampshire liquor and wine manufacturers, pedestrian control signals and more became law by a stroke of Gov. Sununu’s pen on Friday.
Senate Bill 1 would allow employees up to 12 weeks leave from work at 60 percent of pay.
Rep. Ann M. Kuster (D-N.H.) pointed out before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, that, besides costs, the risk of accidents or sabotage at the 16 sites only increases with time.
Supporters say an amendment to HB 183 will preserve the state policy that was passed last year, but has yet to be enacted because of legal disagreements.
Anti-CWIP was the issue that catapulted Hugh Gallen to an upset victory in the 1978 gubernatorial election that ousted three-term incumbent Meldrim Thomson.